Parsad Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Current bid is $3M...Cheers! https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-last-warren-buffett-lunch-175430933.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValueMaven Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 God I wish I could... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepydragon Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 12m now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsad Posted June 17, 2022 Author Share Posted June 17, 2022 1 hour ago, sleepydragon said: 12m now https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-bidding-tops-12-3-162324883.html Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aws Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 People seem to like those incrementing number strings when bidding on this auction. IIRC in the past we've had 2,345,678; 3,456,789; and 4,567,888 so far. And now 12,345,678. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzCactus Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 US $13,141,314.00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValueMaven Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Think about it - this 1 year is going to represent over 30% of all $$ raised over the past 22 years. What a blessing to the folks in San Fran! I'd suggest people on this site personally donate to Glide directly (you can give any amount) ... what a way to honor Mr. Buffett's last lunch!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepydragon Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 54 minutes ago, AzCactus said: US $13,141,314.00 Wow, this one is a Chinese bidder. 1314 = one lifetime one generation in Chinese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aws Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 (edited) 19,000,100 is the final total. Looks like it was the same two bidders who chased it all the way up from 3 million to 19. What a great final auction for them. There was a Livestream of an event held for the last hour of the auction if you want to learn more about glide, see some tributes to Warren, and see the final bids come in. https://www.glide.org/celebrating-a-legacy-of-commitment/ Edited June 18, 2022 by aws Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Hjorth Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 So around USD 19 M for a dinner with an almost 92 years old geriatric [one of the best of his age, that is, however]. Insane capital allocation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blugolds11 Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 10 minutes ago, John Hjorth said: So around USD 19 M for a dinner with an almost 92 years old geriatric [one of the best of his age, that is, however]. Insane capital allocation. $19M at this stage of the game is quite a bit...but it worked out well for Ted Weschler he paid about $5 million, landed a dream job making $1M a year(took a pay cut)...better than these kids spending $200k on a B.A. in Art History and working at Starbucks for $30k/yr. I would honestly pull a Buffett and offer services for free on a trial basis for the opportunity to work with/for someone that I admired and thought I had a lot to learn from. Also unsure if its one individual or a group...that $19M might be split up, can have up to 7 guests... thats $2.7M each...not "cheap" but lets me honest..if you've got the cash, how do you put a price on that... More interesting to think of the percentage of someones net worth they would sacrifice to have dinner with a legend. 5%? 10%? 35? Its all relative. The same could be said about any of the "GOATS" in their respective specialties... Would you pay to have dinner with Al Einstein? Michael Jordan? Ghandi? I would name a couple of former presidents but the irony of it is, you can contribute much less than $19M to a campaign and have dinner with future/past/present POTUS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsad Posted June 20, 2022 Author Share Posted June 20, 2022 On 6/18/2022 at 7:48 AM, Blugolds11 said: $19M at this stage of the game is quite a bit...but it worked out well for Ted Weschler he paid about $5 million, landed a dream job making $1M a year(took a pay cut)...better than these kids spending $200k on a B.A. in Art History and working at Starbucks for $30k/yr. I would honestly pull a Buffett and offer services for free on a trial basis for the opportunity to work with/for someone that I admired and thought I had a lot to learn from. Also unsure if its one individual or a group...that $19M might be split up, can have up to 7 guests... thats $2.7M each...not "cheap" but lets me honest..if you've got the cash, how do you put a price on that... More interesting to think of the percentage of someones net worth they would sacrifice to have dinner with a legend. 5%? 10%? 35? Its all relative. The same could be said about any of the "GOATS" in their respective specialties... Would you pay to have dinner with Al Einstein? Michael Jordan? Ghandi? I would name a couple of former presidents but the irony of it is, you can contribute much less than $19M to a campaign and have dinner with future/past/present POTUS. I believe Ted paid $5M for two lunches...so he got an even better bargain per lunch, plus the job! In terms of who I would pay to have dinner with...Einstein and Gandhi, yes...Jordan, no. Would rather lunch with Steph Curry, Patrick Mahomes or Peyton Manning...they would be fun! Would also pay to lunch with Roger Federer or Nadal. I did buy a lunch and round of golf with Gretzky, but then the damn pandemic came and never got to enjoy it! C'est la vie! Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spekulatius Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 If someone is in the area (North of Boston) and buys me a decent lunch and a few beers I am all in. No million $ auction needed. That’s what value looks like. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbm21 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 3 hours ago, Parsad said: I believe Ted paid $5M for two lunches...so he got an even better bargain per lunch, plus the job! In terms of who I would pay to have dinner with...Einstein and Gandhi, yes...Jordan, no. Would rather lunch with Steph Curry, Patrick Mahomes or Peyton Manning...they would be fun! Would also pay to lunch with Roger Federer or Nadal. I did buy a lunch and round of golf with Gretzky, but then the damn pandemic came and never got to enjoy it! C'est la vie! Cheers! Would be fund manager or is would want market himself to get the more funds to manage. It’s a marketing expense aka business expense/cost of doing business . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spekulatius Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 A lunch with Albert Einstein would definitely be worth more than $5M, since he is dead for 67 years now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 1 hour ago, Spekulatius said: A lunch with Albert Einstein would definitely be worth more than $5M, since he is dead for 67 years now. Quite the opposite. Since he's been dead for 67 years, you couldn't pay me $5M to have lunch with him. Gross. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boilermaker75 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 I got to eat lunch with Neil Armstrong. He was on the Dean's advisory committee when I was an Assistant Dean back around 1992. I sat directly across at one of those rectangular tables. I also got to meet and talk briefly with him a few other times. Extremely humble and gracious person. At a reception after an NFF dinner, I essentially sat alone at a table with Len Dawson and spoke with him for about an hour. I think everyone else there was too young to know who he was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsad Posted June 21, 2022 Author Share Posted June 21, 2022 41 minutes ago, boilermaker75 said: I got to eat lunch with Neil Armstrong. He was on the Dean's advisory committee when I was an Assistant Dean back around 1992. I sat directly across at one of those rectangular tables. I also got to meet and talk briefly with him a few other times. Extremely humble and gracious person. At a reception after an NFF dinner, I essentially sat alone at a table with Len Dawson and spoke with him for about an hour. I think everyone else there was too young to know who he was. This Len Dawson?! It's like when Guy LaFleur would smoke in between periods for the Montreal Canadiens, and then go out and score a hat-trick! Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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