A charity auction to have lunch with Warren Buffett stopped short of a record, with an anonymous fan bidding $3,300,100 to meet the billionaire.
This year’s winning bid is up from $2,679,001 last year and down from the record high of $3,456,789.
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The annual auction for lunch with the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRK.A, +0.70% BRK.B, +0.37% chairman has raised more than $25 million for San Francisco charity Glide, a favorite cause of Buffett’s first wife, Susie Buffett. Glide offers free meals, health care and other services to homeless and low-income people in San Francisco.
The winner can invite up to seven friends for lunch with Buffett at steakhouse Smith & Wollensky in New York. The steakhouse’s founder makes an annual donation to Glide.
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Last year’s lunch also went to an anonymous bidder.
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