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Investor has $2.1M lunch with Warren Buffett

Financial expert auctions a lunch date every year to benefit the Glide Foundation, which provides social services to San Francisco's homeless and poor

Who pays $2.1 million to lunch and swap conversation with the Seer of Omaha? Not many, but one sound charity-benefit bid is enough to win the date with Berkshire Hathaway chief executive Warren Buffet.

This year, the winner for $2.1 million was Chinese investment fund manager Zhao Danyang. During a television interview before lunch Wednesday, Buffett joked that he hoped he wouldn't have to...

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