Anonymous Wins $9,000,100 Buffett-Curry Lunch Auction

An anonymous bidder paid $9,000,100 to win a private lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett and basketball star Stephen Curry and his wife, Ayesha Curry, in a charity auction that ended Thursday on eBay.

The winning bid, which supports the GLIDE Foundation in San Francisco and the Currys' Eat.Learn.Play. Foundation, will be matched by Buffett for each organization, resulting in a total donation of about $27 million. The lunch is scheduled for June 24 in Omaha, Nebraska, Buffett's hometown and headquarters of his Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate. The winner may bring up to seven guests.

GLIDE provides services to combat poverty, homelessness and substance abuse in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. Eat.Learn.Play. focuses on nutrition, education and physical activity for children, primarily in Oakland. Buffett's previous auctions for GLIDE, held annually from 2000 until a pause during the pandemic, raised more than $53 million overall. The last such event in 2022 drew a record $19 million bid, after which Buffett discontinued it. A 2024 auction featuring software executive Marc Benioff raised $1.5 million.

Buffett initiated this year's auction by inviting the Currys...