Steph and Ayesha Curry joined forces with Warren Buffett to raise funds for SF\u2019s Glide Foundation, as well as Ayesha\u2019s Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation, with the winning bid earning an impressive $9 million for lunch with the trio. <\/p>\n
The big auction launched last week on eBay<\/a> and wrapped up Thursday with one lucky anonymous winner landing an exclusive lunch in Omaha, Nebraska, the hometown of 95-year-old investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett, as the Associated Press reports<\/a>. <\/p>\n The Bay Area\u2019s power couple, Steph and Ayesha Curry, will also be joining the lunch of a lifetime, along with seven lucky guests of the winner\u2019s choice, according to CNBC<\/a>. Buffett reportedly reached out to Curry to have him join the cause earlier this year.<\/p>\n Starting in 2000, Buffett has auctioned these lunches and raised around $53.2 million for the Glide Foundation, but said he was stopping the auctions after the winning bid went for $19 million in 2022<\/a>. eBay says the 2022 auction is still its largest charity auction by far. <\/p>\n Per CNBC, Buffett\u2019s first wife Susan, who died in 2004, used to volunteer at Glide Memorial.<\/p>\n The proceeds from the auction will be equally split between the Glide Foundation and Ayesha Curry\u2019s Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation. Buffett will reportedly be matching the winning bid for each nonprofit, bringing the total proceeds to around $27 million.<\/p>\n In 2023, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff pledged to continue these lunches<\/a> to benefit the Glide Foundation, following Buffett’s exit, but the first lunch in 2024 with only Benioff on the bill only raised $1.5 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n