Anonymous bidder shells out record $19 million for lunch with Warren Buffett

An nameless bidder has shelled out a file $19 million for a personal lunch with billionaire Warren Buffet at a steakhouse in New York Metropolis.

The food with the Berkshire Hathaway CEO was provided on an eBay auction to benefit the San-Francisco-primarily based charity GLIDE, which aids homeless persons and all those in poverty. The winner can deliver up to 7 visitors.

Buffett has lifted $53 million for GLIDE considering the fact that the auction began in 2000. The charity gained the philanthropist billionaire’s help when his initially wife, Susie, released him to it after she started out volunteering there. She died in 2004.

This year’s occasion will be the first personal lunch available with the 91-calendar year-previous billionaire because the earlier document-location bid of $4.5 million by cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sunshine in 2019. The previous two auctions were being termed off due to COVID-19 fears and Buffett has stated this will be the final.

“It is been nothing at all but very good,” Buffett reported of the charity lunch in a news launch. “I have met a ton of attention-grabbing people today from all in excess of the globe. The one particular universal attribute is that they really feel the cash is heading to be place to quite very good works by using.”

Like the winner this yr, some other past winners have picked out to remain anonymous. Just one past winner, Ted Weschler, gained a career offer from Buffett’s business immediately after he spent nearly $5.3 million on two auctions in 2010 and 2011. Weschler now will work as an financial investment supervisor for the Omaha, Nebraska, conglomerate, Berkshire.