Warren Buffett lunch auctioned at US$2.63 mln
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Buffett, one of the world's richest people, is chief executive of the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc. |
The winning bidder added another amount to bring the tab to US$ 2,626,411 after winning a bid of US$2,345,678 at the close of the weeklongonline auction, thus outbidding last year's previous record-breaking sum.
The proceeds from the auction will go to the Glide Foundation, a non-profit organization which provides social services to the poor and homeless in San Francisco.
Yet the winner's identity was not released.
The winner of the auction usually gets to lunch with Buffett at New York's Smith & Wollensky steakhouse and has free rein to steer the table talk.
The auction started in 2000, when the winning bid was $25,000. In 2003, the auction was first held on eBay, drawing bidders from all over the world, and the winning bid was increased to US$250,100.
The previous record amount bid till in the annual auction was set by an anonymous American at US$2,626,311 last year. In 2009, Canadian investment firm Salida Capital paid US$1.68 million to dine with Buffett and in 2008, Zhao Danyang, a Chinese investment fund manager paid US$2.11 million.
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