Buffett's "Last Lunch" took a 19 million US dollars of sky -high price and "asking meals" and his "dinner"

Cover Journalist Xiong Yingying

After 5 days and 43 bids, at 10:30 on June 18, Beijing time, the last "Buffet Charity Lunch" auction was sold to refresh the historical record of US $ 1.901 million (about 128 million yuan), which was far exceeding the 2019 Sun Yuchen 457 in 2019 The bid record of 10,000 US dollars. Lunch auctions will also be donated to non -profit organization Graded Foundation.

It is reported that the auctioneers participating in the auction need to pass the pre -qualification pre -examination, and the winners can invite up to 7 friends to have lunch with Buffett in New York, USA. No one has publicly claimed the identity of the winner.

21 auctions have cumulatively raised more than $ 53 million

The auction started on the eBay at 10:30 on June 13th, Beijing time, with a starting price of $ 25,000. The reporter noticed that as of 6 pm on June 16, only 8 people were bid, and the auction price was US $ 30,100, but by the afternoon of June 17, this number had climbed to $ 13.1 million.

Beijing time on the 16th of only 8 people bid

The first auction of Buffett charity lunch began in 2000 and made a high price of $ 25,000 in that year. Winners were PETE Budlong, an Internet company's electrical engineer. In 2003, after the auction of Buffett's proposal to the EBAY online, the transaction price soared to $ 25,100, and the auction was a hedge fund Greenlight Capital founder David Einhorn. Beginning in 2008, the bidder's bid has not been less than $ 1 million. According to statistics, 21 times of Buffet Charity lunch has raised more than $ 53 million.

It is reported that the bidders in Buffett lunch can disclose their identity or anonymous. Of the 20 auctions in the past, 14 were disclosed in their personal identities. Most of these people were investment in the investment community, with 6 anonymous winners.

It is worth mentioning that in 2009, Courtenay Wolfe, CEO of Canadian investors and wealth management companies, was the first female winner, with a chance to take lunch with Buffett for $ 1.683 million. She said at the time that the lunch with Buffett was an opportunity to "only once in a lifetime".

In 2011 and 2012, the founder of the Peninsula Ted Weschler successfully won the bid for two consecutive years, with the amount of 2.626 million yuan and 2.626 million yuan, respectively. After two meals, he successfully entered the work of Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway to assist in controlling $ 110 billion in stocks, bonds and other investment in Berkshire.

Buffett lunch calendar (pictured according to the Financial Post)

Four Chinese people have taken Buffett lunch

In the auction history of Buffett lunch, four Chinese winners have appeared, and the fate of four people is different now.

In 2006, the BBG founder Duan Yongping became the first Chinese to take Buffett lunch for $ 620,100. Later, Duan Yongping said in an interview with the media that it had a lot to do with investment in Buffett. Duan Yongping is still active on the front line of investment today. On April 22, he released a dynamic on social platform that he bought Tencent Holdings at $ 42.71. This is also after March, Duan Yongping has once again copied Tencent Holdings.

In 2008, Zhao Danyang, the founder of the "Private Equity Godfather" and the founder of Chi Zi, the hedge fund management company, took Buffett lunch for $ 2.11 million. During the meal, Zhao Danyang recommended Wuxi Commercial stock to the stock god, so Wumi Commercial rose sharply. But after this lunch, Buffy specially set the rules of "no lunch". According to media reports, last year, Zhao Danyang's fund products not only performed outstanding performance, but also among a macro and stock strategy hedge fund TOP2 with a scale of more than $ 500 million in data platforms.

In 2015, Zhu Xi, chairman of Tian Shen Entertainment, took Buffett lunch for $ 2.3457 million. In the following half a year, the stock price of Tianshen Entertainment rose from more than 60 yuan to 125 yuan. However, in 2018, Tian Shen Entertainment had a huge loss, and Zhu Xi had already withdrawn from the public vision.

In 2019, Sun Yuchen, the founder of the cryptocurrency wave market, took a lunch for $ 4.568 million, setting a new transaction record, and he was the first person to put Buffett pigeons. After half a year, the lunch meeting that Sun Yuchen's "sudden kidney stones" was canceled. Today, Sun Yuchen is still keen on participating in various auction activities, and he took a place for Amazon's founder Bezos for the first time in June last June.

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