Bill Ackman
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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We started Gotham Partners with no experience, David Berkowitz and I, and we got a lot of experience.
And we did a lot of things well, and we did some things that were a mistake.
One of the mistakes we made is five years in, we decided to expand the mandate to include private assets.
And mixing private assets in a hedge fund where people can redeem capital, even with side pockets and these other mechanisms, creates a lot of complexity.
So one of the things I did at Persian Square
was Persian Square doesn't make private investments.
And I had the benefit of doing a 2.0.
I think a big part of the reason why Persian Square has been successful is the case I made when I was raising money when I launched Persian Square.
I said, I'm the most experienced hedge fund manager in America at 37 because I've already started a hedge fund, had a lot of success, had some mistakes.
And so that was part of my
pitch.
I think that if I look over the course of my life, I think one thing I've been good at is learning from mistakes that I've made over time.
And a lot of people just don't want to talk about mistakes.
They want to shove them to the side.
And as we say at Purdue, it's where we study them and we treasure them because there's not a business person that's had a not made meaningful mistakes over time or not had very significant setbacks.
And it's how you deal with the setbacks, how you learn from the mistakes that increases your probability of success long-term.
Yeah, it was Joe Steinberg, incoming of Leucadia National, gave me the $50 million.
That was the difference between our launching and not, and it wasn't just the $50 million.
Lucadia, they are.
Ian is no longer, but has passed away.
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