Lunch date with Warren Buffett sells for $19 million

An expensive date and how! Someone (clearly someone very rich) bid $19 billion dollars (Rs 148 crores) to have lunch with Warren Buffett as the investment guru auctioned time with him in support of a charity for one last time. The lucky winner has still not been disclosed.

Buffett, the world's seventh-richest man has been 'selling' lunch date with him for the last 2 decades and donating the money to charity. An eBay spokeswoman said the lunch was the most expensive item ever sold on the company’s website to benefit charity.

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In fact, if you see in terms of value, the price of auction has gone up nearly 4 times since the last auction three years ago. Justin Sun, the founder of cryptocurrency company Tron, won the bidding in 2019, paying nearly $4.6 million to dine with Buffett, topping the previous record by over $1 million.

Buffett, 91, the chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, has raised more than $53.2 million for Glide in the 21 auctions, which began in 2000.