{"id":73678,"date":"2026-05-16T12:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/73678\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T12:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:27:17","slug":"anonymous-bidder-pays-9m-for-lunch-with-steph-curry-warren-buffett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/73678\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous bidder pays $9M for lunch with Steph Curry, Warren Buffett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brief<\/p>\n<p>An anonymous bidder paid $9,000,100 in an eBay auction for a private lunch with Stephen Curry, Ayesha Curry and billionaire investor Warren Buffett in Omaha, Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>Buffett said he will match the winning bid, with proceeds benefiting San Francisco\u2019s GLIDE Foundation and the Currys\u2019 Eat.Learn.Play. Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The charity lunch revived Buffett\u2019s longtime fundraising tradition, which has raised more than $53 million for GLIDE over two decades.<\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; Someone paid more than $9 million to have lunch with basketball player <a data-ylk=\"slk:Stephen Curry;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/people\/steph-curry\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Curry<\/a> and Warren Buffett, and the legendary investor also promised to match the winning bid so both their favorite charities will benefit.<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous winner<\/p>\n<p>What we know<\/p>\n<p>The auction on eBay was intended to revive an event that Buffett hosted for more than two decades that raised $53 million for the GLIDE Foundation homeless charity in San Francisco. This year\u2019s auction that wrapped up Thursday night also raised month for Curry\u2019s Eat.Learn.Play. Foundation that he established with his wife, Ayesha.<\/p>\n<p>The anonymous winner paid $9,000,100 to win a <a data-ylk=\"slk:private lunch with Buffett and the Currys;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/lunch-stephen-ayesha-curry-warren-221105554.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">private lunch with Buffett and the Currys<\/a> in the 95-year-old investor\u2019s hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, next month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re overwhelmed with gratitude for this opportunity, which reflects a shared belief that when different generations and institutions come together with purpose, we can create deeper and more lasting impact for the people who need it most,&#8221; the Currys said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Tradition started in 2000<\/p>\n<p>The backstory<\/p>\n<p>The Buffett auctions started in 2000 and continued every year until the pandemic prompted a couple years off. Starting in 2008, every winning bid for lunch with the investing giant topped $1 million. He discontinued the event after someone paid $19 million for a lunch in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>A follow-up auction in 2024 raised $1.5 million for a lunch with software titan Marc Benioff, but that version of the event didn\u2019t last.<\/p>\n<p>Buffett reached out to the Currys earlier this year to ask them to join the lunch auction this year. Curry missed 27 games this year before returning to help the Golden State Warriors down the stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Buffett stepped down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway in January after six decades of leading the conglomerate. He remains chairman, but just sat through his first annual shareholder meeting \u2014 sitting in the audience instead of leading the event from stage.<\/p>\n<p>The Source<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief An anonymous bidder paid $9,000,100 in an eBay auction for a private lunch with Stephen Curry,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[4539,42183,6880,41533,845,669],"class_list":{"0":"post-73678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-warren-buffett","8":"tag-ayesha-curry","9":"tag-ebay-auction","10":"tag-glide-foundation","11":"tag-private-lunch","12":"tag-stephen-curry","13":"tag-warren-buffett"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116584254482600102","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}