Justin
Sun, the founder of Tron and winner of the annual auction for a lunch
with renowned investor Warren Buffett, has invited more notable figures
from the crypto industry to attend.
Earlier today, July 21, Sun invited
the founder and CEO of trading platform eToro, Yoni Assia, to the lunch
with the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway via tweet. Assia
quickly responded
saying, “Justin, it is my honor to join you for lunch with
@WarrenBuffett. A big step for bridging between the traditional finance
world and the new one!”
Yesterday, Sun invited the head of the Binance Charity Fund, Helen Hai. Hai reportedly responded
within minutes and said the luncheon would be an opportune chance to
discuss cryptocurrency and philanthropy. Binance Charity is the
philanthropic arm of cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
Earlier this week, Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of crypto payments firm Circle, accepted a tweeted invitation to the lunch. In mid-June, Litecoin (LTC) creator Charlie Lee became the first guest Sun’s lunch with Buffett.
Other
invitations are expected to follow ahead of the event, which will take
place on July 25 at Quince, a three-Michelin-star restaurant in San
Francisco.
The auction and subsequent lunch event with the “Oracle of Omaha” began in 2000 as a way to support one of Buffett’s favorite charities, San Francisco’s Glide Foundation.
Since its inception, the lunch auction has purportedly raised over $30
million for the charity. Sun paid a record-breaking $4,567,888 to win
the charity auction.
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