[pete buttigieg billionaire fundraiser]REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton * Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and the family members of fellow Silicon Valley billionaires Sergey Brin, Sheryl Sandberg, and Eric Schmidt hosted a glitzy fundraiser for South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign in Napa Valley on Monday, Recode's Teddy Schleifer reported. * Photos of the event show Buttigieg speaking with guests under a chandelier that contains 1,500 Swarovski crystals. * Buttigieg already received donations from 39 billionaires in the first 11 months of 2019. * Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have turned taking campaign donations from the ultra-wealthy into a taboo in the Democratic presidential primary. * VISIT BUSINESS INSIDER'S HOMEPAGE FOR MORE STORIES. Pete Buttigieg spent his Monday morning at a glitzy Napa Valley brunch with the family members of Silicon Valley billionaires. The event's cohosts included Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, Google cofounder Sergey Brin's wife Nicole Shanahan, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's wife Wendy Schmidt, and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's sister Michelle Sandberg, a campaign document obtained by Recode's Teddy Schleifer shows. These hosts alone have a combined net worth of $80 billion, according to Recode.SEE THE REST OF THE STORY AT BUSINESS INSIDERNOW WATCH: Traditional Japanese swords can take over 18 months to create — here's what makes them so special SEE ALSO: * A billionaire pig farmer has the world's fastest-growing fortune — and it has more than quadrupled this year thanks to a global pork shortage * I visited the glittering Greek island of Mykonos, the summer destination of choice for billionaires — and it's a very different experience if you aren't swimming in money * Giorgio Armani just dropped $17.5 million on a Manhattan penthouse that has stained glass windows and looks like a church — here's a look inside SEE ALSO: KAMALA HARRIS HAS MORE BILLIONAIRE DONORS THAN ANY OTHER DEMOCRAT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT DON'T MISS: MEET THE TOP 10 ULTRA-WEALTHY AMERICANS FUNDING THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS SO FAR
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