Alyson Shontell
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769 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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Before we get into all of what Pershing Square is, I want to have people understand how you became the person that you are a little bit and kind of going back into the archives of Bill Ackman.
So even going back to your upbringing, there was a couple of things in my research that stood out about you.
One is that like your dad instilled in you, you are not going to get a penny of my inheritance.
So you better earn your own money.
That was one thing that set out.
And you set these ambitious milestones for yourself financially that you actually wound up hitting, partly as a result, I assume.
And now there was a yearbook quote, I think, one where you were called very verbose.
And two, your friend said, closed mouth gets no foot or gathers no foot.
Gathers no foot, yes.
And so clearly never shy and never afraid to speak your mind.
That's true.
And so I'm curious, when you think about your foundational upbringing, what created the Bill Ackman today?
And so then when you were a teenager, you said to your dad, I'm going to be a millionaire by 30, have $100 million by 40, and a billion dollars by 50.
And you hit them, I think, ahead of schedule.
I'm curious, what are the things that going back, you look through those decades that you think most moved the needle for you to hit those?
Well, when you started Gotham, I understand you looked at the Forbes 400 list, and that's a list of American billionaires.
And you cold called them?
Yes.
And some of them actually invested?
You have no tracker.
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