Bill Ackman
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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And the first stock I bought went up.
You know, if it had gone down, maybe I'd do something else.
But
Wasn't necessarily billionaires back then.
The richest people in America.
You had to have like a $400 million net worth to be on the list or so back then.
Yes.
So how did you- Four of the six were on the list.
Basically, I figured if I want to raise $10 million, which was the goal, but the minimum was $3 million, why not go to the richest people in the world and ask them for a really small amount of money?
That was my theory.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's a crazy idea, but no one else probably had done it before.
So-
And basically, really successful people, particularly entrepreneurially successful people, admire entrepreneurship in young people.
I think it's just natural.
It makes sense.
And so knocked on a lot of doors, basically, and got a huge amount of rejection.
90 plus percent of the people turned us down, probably 95 or 96 percent of the people turned us down.
But, you know, five or six people gave us the three million to start the business.
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