{"id":1145,"date":"2026-05-16T22:37:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:39:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:39:28","slug":"some-idiot-paid-9-million-to-dine-with-warren-buffett-what-a-moron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/some-idiot-paid-9-million-to-dine-with-warren-buffett-what-a-moron\/","title":{"rendered":"SOME IDIOT PAID $9 MILLION TO &#8220;DINE&#8221; WITH WARREN BUFFETT?  WHAT A MORON!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-image-slot image-slot-placeholder\" data-is-first=\"true\" data-height=\"940\" data-doc-id=\"cms\/api\/amp\/image\/AA23hfeq\">\n<div class=\"article-image-slot\">\n<div class=\"article-image-container polished\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;OpenModal&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:8,&quot;c.i&quot;:&quot;AA23hJqG&quot;,&quot;c.l&quot;:false,&quot;c.t&quot;:13,&quot;c.v&quot;:&quot;finance&quot;,&quot;c.c&quot;:&quot;financenews&quot;,&quot;c.b&quot;:&quot;The Wall Street Journal&quot;,&quot;c.bi&quot;:&quot;AAynGx&quot;,&quot;c.tv&quot;:&quot;finance&quot;,&quot;c.tc&quot;:&quot;economy&quot;,&quot;c.hl&quot;:&quot;Mystery bidder pays $9 million to dine with Warren Buffett&quot;}\" data-test-id=\"AA23hfeq\">\n<div><\/div>\n<p><button class=\"article-image-height-wrapper expandable article-image-height-wrapper-new\" data-customhandled=\"true\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;OpenModalButton&quot;,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.i&quot;:&quot;AA23hJqG&quot;,&quot;c.l&quot;:false,&quot;c.t&quot;:13,&quot;c.v&quot;:&quot;finance&quot;,&quot;c.c&quot;:&quot;financenews&quot;,&quot;c.b&quot;:&quot;The Wall Street Journal&quot;,&quot;c.bi&quot;:&quot;AAynGx&quot;,&quot;c.tv&quot;:&quot;finance&quot;,&quot;c.tc&quot;:&quot;economy&quot;,&quot;c.hl&quot;:&quot;Mystery bidder pays $9 million to dine with Warren Buffett&quot;}\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-image article-image-ux-impr article-image-new expandable\" title=\"Warren Buffett\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA23hfeq.img?w=534&amp;h=392&amp;m=6&amp;x=450&amp;y=173&amp;s=221&amp;d=221\" alt=\"Warren Buffett\" \/><\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-caption-container image-caption-container-ux-impr articlewc-image-caption-container\"><span class=\"image-caption\">Warren Buffett<\/span><span class=\"image-attribution image-attribution-ux-impr\">\u00a9\u00a0Vincent Tullo for WSJ<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">Warren Buffett is stepping out for his famed charity lunch again.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">A mystery bidder paid just over $9 million to win an auction with the Oracle of Omaha, who last participated in the event in 2022.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">DINE MAY MEAN MCDONALD&#8217;S ?\u00a0 after all this is with the world&#8217;s biggest cheapskate.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">The winner will meet the Berkshire Hathaway chairman for lunch on June 24 in Omaha, Neb. They will be joined by Golden State Warriors point-guard Steph Curry and his wife, entrepreneur Ayesha Curry. The winning bidder can bring up to seven guests.<\/p>\n<div class=\"intra-article-module\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;intraArticle&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13}\">\n<div class=\"articlePageIntraArticleFullWidth ad-slot-placeholder left-image-intra-ad full-bleed-image-intra-ad intra-ad-rm-bg intra-ad-rm-h\" data-ad-index=\"0\">\n<div class=\"left-image-intra-ad full-bleed-image-intra-ad intra-article-display-ad\">\n<div class=\"displayAdContainer\">\n<div id=\"rectangle4_596059266ec14e5697e43d329e1fdde4\" class=\"displayAdWCContainer \" data-ad=\"&quot;v&quot;:1,&quot;d&quot;:1,&quot;r&quot;:1,&quot;s&quot;:undefined}\" data-anadid=\"745101603\">\n<div id=\"div_utif_rectangle4_596059266ec14e5697e43d329e1fdde4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"continue-read-break\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">This year\u2019s winning bid amount is a steep drop from the last time Buffett participated in the lunch in 2022, when an anonymous bidder paid a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/finance\/investing\/warren-buffetts-last-charity-lunch-auction-draws-record-19-million-bid-11655554293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">record $19 million<\/a>. Buffett, 95, has helped raise more than $50 million for Glide, a treasured cause of his first wife, Susie Buffett, who died in 2004.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image-slot image-slot-placeholder\" data-height=\"800\" data-doc-id=\"cms\/api\/amp\/image\/AA23gY4r\">\n<div class=\"article-image-slot\">\n<div class=\"article-image-container polished\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;OpenModal&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:8,&quot;c.i&quot;:&quot;AA23hJqG&quot;,&quot;c.l&quot;:false,&quot;c.t&quot;:13,&quot;c.v&quot;:&quot;finance&quot;,&quot;c.c&quot;:&quot;financenews&quot;,&quot;c.b&quot;:&quot;The Wall Street Journal&quot;,&quot;c.bi&quot;:&quot;AAynGx&quot;,&quot;c.tv&quot;:&quot;finance&quot;,&quot;c.tc&quot;:&quot;economy&quot;,&quot;c.hl&quot;:&quot;Mystery bidder pays $9 million to dine with Warren Buffett&quot;}\" data-test-id=\"AA23gY4r\">\n<div><\/div>\n<p><button class=\"article-image-height-wrapper expandable article-image-height-wrapper-new\" data-customhandled=\"true\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;OpenModalButton&quot;,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.i&quot;:&quot;AA23hJqG&quot;,&quot;c.l&quot;:false,&quot;c.t&quot;:13,&quot;c.v&quot;:&quot;finance&quot;,&quot;c.c&quot;:&quot;financenews&quot;,&quot;c.b&quot;:&quot;The Wall Street Journal&quot;,&quot;c.bi&quot;:&quot;AAynGx&quot;,&quot;c.tv&quot;:&quot;finance&quot;,&quot;c.tc&quot;:&quot;economy&quot;,&quot;c.hl&quot;:&quot;Mystery bidder pays $9 million to dine with Warren Buffett&quot;}\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-image article-image-ux-impr article-image-new expandable\" title=\"Winning bids for Buffett lunches\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA23gY4r.img?w=534&amp;h=712&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Winning bids for Buffett lunches\" \/><\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-caption-container image-caption-container-ux-impr articlewc-image-caption-container\"><span class=\"image-caption\">Winning bids for Buffett lunches<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">\u201cAt 92, I ran out of gas. The spirit remained eager but the flesh became progressively weaker,\u201d Buffett said. \u201cBoth the money and the message remain important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">The charity lunch has long been seen in the business world as a rare chance to spend time with the legendary investor, who retired as CEO of Berkshire in December.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">ed Weschler, now a Berkshire investment manager, won the auction twice when he was a hedge-fund manager, paying more than $2 million each time. Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun is another previous winner. Sun <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/warren-buffett-finally-sits-down-for-4-6-million-charity-meal-11581014466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">said he gave crypto skeptic Buffett<\/a>\u00a0one bitcoin, as well as several Tron, the digital token of the blockchain he founded, during their meal in 2020.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">Five bidders participated in this year\u2019s auction on eBay<strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>which opened at $50,000. Other items that were up for bidding include a $1 dollar bill signed by Buffett that sold for $9,100 and a signed Curry jersey that sold for $1,547.99.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">The auction moved online in 2003, allowing Buffett fans around the world to participate. The winning price for the lunch has held above $1 million since 2008.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">Proceeds from this year\u2019s auction will be split between the charity Glide and the Currys\u2019 Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation, which provides meals and reading resources to students in Oakland, Calif. Glide provides meals, healthcare and legal aid to homeless and other vulnerable individuals in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Buffett\u00a9\u00a0Vincent Tullo for WSJ Warren Buffett is stepping out for his famed charity lunch again. A mystery bidder paid just over $9 million to win an auction with the Oracle of Omaha, who last participated in the event in 2022. DINE MAY MEAN MCDONALD&#8217;S ?\u00a0 after all this is with the world&#8217;s biggest cheapskate. 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