Bill Ackman
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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But you want some domain expertise.
I would say most importantly, you want people who are prepared to speak the truth and to do so directly to the CEO without regard to worrying about whether they're going to keep their seat on the board.
There are lots of examples, and I've experienced them even recently, where
where people will say things outside the boardroom, but in prime time in the boardroom, they're afraid to challenge the CEO because, you know, this part of their career is dependent on them staying on boards.
And they know the next board they're being considered for, the CEO is going to check with this guy and say, hey, is he a good director, right?
And a bad CEO will say a good director is one who's never going to challenge anything.
I have to say he's just going to support everybody.
what I want.
And what you really want is you want people are going to challenge you.
And we've tried to do that.
And you know, from the Pershing Square board, we have five independent directors, and we pick people who we had confidence would tell us what they actually believed.
And who have skin in the game, all of our directors are meaningful shareholders in in the company.
So I think you want skin in the game.
Think you want people with, you know, very good experience, good judgment, all the obvious intelligence, you know, character.
But I think most importantly, they can't be shy.
So Pershing Square is a asset management business.
Some people call it an alternative asset management business.
So one of the companies we took public is Pershing Square.
Pershing Square Inc., right, the business of managing money.
And it's a company that has pretty unique attributes when you compare it to other asset managers in that effectively all, 98% of our capital is in public companies.
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