Bill Ackman

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1,217 appearances 6 recordings 6 series first heard Feb 2024 last heard 3 Jun

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Bill Ackman: Investment Strategy, What the Market is Missing, How AI Breaks Businesses · 3 Jun 2026 podcast

That's the most important factor.

I would say I'm as...

activist as I've ever been.

But more of it's on Twitter than I would say in the corporate context.

And the reason for that is when I started in Pershing Square, no one sort of knew who we were.

And so actually one of our first investments was Wendy's International.

Wendy's owned Tim Hortons, the Canadian coffee and donut chain.

And the value of Tim Hortons was more than the entire value of Wendy's.

So we had this very simple idea.

Buy Wendy's, spin off Tim Hortons, double our money.

And we bought 10% of the company, and I called the CEO, and he didn't return my call.

And I called him again, he didn't return my call.

I literally couldn't get a return phone call from the beginning.

So we actually called a friend who worked at Blackstone, and Steve Schwartzman agreed to write a fairness opinion on what Wendy's would be worth if we spun off Tim Hortons.

We kind of mailed it in and filed it publicly, and six weeks later, they spun off Tim Hortons.

And then the CEO finally called me back, and he thanked me.

And he had gotten fired, but he thanked me because he had a huge exit package.

I was very happy.

But so in the beginning, we couldn't get a return phone call.

So we had to and we were small.

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