The annual Glide auction of a lunch with legendary investor Warren Buffett just finished its last-ever bidding, and it goes out on a high note of raising $19 million for poverty and hunger programs. We knew six weeks ago with the announcement of this year’s annual Glide auction of a lunch with Warren Buffett that the 2022 auction would be the last. We had a record breaking amount of $19,000,100 in the final seconds of the Power of One Charity Auction Lunch. pic.twitter.com/Ihv97ZTFgy — GLIDE (@GLIDEsf) June 18, 2022Nearly half of that $53 million came from this year’s winning bid. Related: Warren Buffett Auctioning Off Lunch With Him in Benefit for Glide, One Last Time [SFist]Image: The White House via Wikimedia Commons
Source: Wall Street Journal June 21, 2022 01:57 UTC