Steak House Lunch - just 1.6 Million. Economy eats into Warren Buffett lunch charity event!!

Each year Oracle of Omaha , Mr.Warren Buffett supports charity Lunch event with him through auction  , proceeds of the sale go towards  Glide foundation (http://www.glide.org/) . Successful bidder for this year  emerged  on closing day of auction June 26 2009 for the price tag of 1.6 Million who wants to stay “anonymous” for now. Looks like economy eats into Warren buffett lunch event too , as the proceeds were approximately 500K less than 2008.  Here is the history of price tag for last 3 year events with winner bidder names.

2007  Mohnish Pabrai, Guy Spier, Harina Kapoor         $650,100

2008  Zhao Danyang                                   $2,110,100

2009 Anonymous                                       $1,680,300

We congragulate “Anonymous” bidder who can pick on genius investor brain for 3 hours and on a side note good lunch too.

Lunch at your neighborhood place - $ 20 ,

Steak House lunch with Mr.Buffett - 1.6 Million ,

but experience PRICELESS :-)


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