He or she, along with up to seven friends, will share a lunch with Mr. Buffett at Smith & Wollensky in Manhattan. Mr. Buffett, the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, has been participating in this event since 2000. That gave Mr. Budlong, now 52, the opportunity to spend hours chatting with Mr. Buffett, his then-wife, Susan Buffett, and seven friends at a San Francisco restaurant. “We chatted for a couple hours,” Mr. Halperin said, adding that Mr. Buffett had kept in touch with him since. In 2012 and 2016, Reuters reported, anonymous bidders offered $3,456,789 to dine with Mr. Buffett.

Source: New York Times June 10, 2017 19:52 UTC