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Buffett EBay Auction Was Won by Canadian Firm

Geoffrey Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 9, 2009 at 5:02 am PT

When Warren Buffett auctioned off lunch with himself for charity last month, the winning bidder remained anonymous. It turns out that the person who spent $1,680,300 for lunch with the investment guru wasn’t a person at all: it was Canadian wealth-management firm Salida Capital.