Bill Ackman
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619 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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So I was good academically and motivated and pretty involved in whether it was sports or clubs or things.
And I guess I wrote a decent essay.
So I think getting into a good school was obviously helpful.
One of my early significant experiences is at Harvard.
I took a job at Harvard student agencies selling advertising for something called Let's Go Travel Guides, which I don't even know if they exist online.
But this was this, you know, a series of books that were Harvard students would write reviews about hotels and stuff around the world.
And we sold advertising and it was a commission based business.
And I guess I was a good salesman and I made $14,000, which seemed like a huge amount of money.
And then I went to work for my father, actually, in his business, which I was not particularly excited about.
I actually liked real estate a lot, but I didn't like the service side of the business.
I liked the people on the other side of the phone I thought were having more fun, the entrepreneurs, the developers.
And I said, you know, I want to be an investor.
And my dad introduced me to a guy named Leonard Marx, recommended the Intelligent Investor by Ben Graham.
That led me to Warren Buffett.
I decided to go to business school to learn how to be an investor.
And I just sort of followed down that path.
And I was fortunate in finding something that I was excited about.
And then I did a lot of reading.
You can learn a lot by reading.
And then I started investing.
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