Warren Buffett, NBA star Stephen Curry team up on – Business News
Warren Buffett is reviving his well-known charity lunch, this time teaming up with basketball celebrity Stephen Curry to spend time with the winner of an public sale.
Bidding on eBay will start on May 7 and final by May 14. The winner can invite up to seven visitors to dine with Buffett, Curry and his spouse Ayesha Curry on June 24 in Omaha, Neb., the place Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway is predicated.
Proceeds might be divided equally between two charities, the Glide Foundation and Eat. Learn. Play. Buffett instructed CNBC he’ll match the profitable bidder’s donation.
Warren Buffett is reviving his well-known charity lunch, and bidding on eBay will start May 7. AP
Glide is a nonprofit in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district that helps the poor, homeless and people battling substance abuse. Eat. Learn. Play. was based by Stephen and Ayesha Curry, and focuses on nutritious meals, childhood literacy and sustaining bodily energetic life.
The public sale may benefit from the star energy of Curry, a four-time National Basketball Association champion and two-time Most Valuable Player. Buffett known as the Golden State Warriors guard “the hero of millions and millions of people.”
In a assertion, Stephen and Ayesha Curry stated the public sale may help college students and households all through the San Francisco space. “Access can open doors, but what matters most is what you do with it,” they stated.
Buffett, 95, is donating almost all of his fortune to charity, and has long believed that companies and nonprofits can work collectively to create actual change.
The legendary investor started supporting Glide after his first spouse, Susan, launched him to the charity, the place she volunteered. She died in 2004.
The winner can invite up to seven visitors to dine with Buffett, Stephen Curry and his spouse Ayesha Curry on June 24 in Omaha, Neb., the place Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway is predicated. REUTERS
Buffett raised about $53.2 million for Glide in 21 auctions between 2000 and 2022. The remaining winner paid $19 million, more than 4 occasions the earlier high.
Glide was long overseen by Cecil Williams and his spouse Janice Mirikitani, who died in 2024 and 2021, respectively. Williams was additionally pastor of the affiliated Glide Memorial Church.
“He believed everybody was worthwhile and the world had given up on these people,” Buffett instructed CNBC. “He never gave up on anybody.”
Buffett was Berkshire’s chief govt for 60 years earlier than Greg Abel succeeded him on Jan. 1. He stays chairman.
