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Bill Ackman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1700 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

Like Chipotle was one of the best investments we ever made. We've got four of eight board seats in And we worked with management and it was a great outcome. I don't think there's ever been a story about it. And the stock's up, you know, almost 10 times from the time we hired Brian Nicholas, CEO. But it's not interesting because there was no battle.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

Like Chipotle was one of the best investments we ever made. We've got four of eight board seats in And we worked with management and it was a great outcome. I don't think there's ever been a story about it. And the stock's up, you know, almost 10 times from the time we hired Brian Nicholas, CEO. But it's not interesting because there was no battle.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

Whereas Herbalife, of course, was like an epic battle, even Canadian Pacific. So for a period there, most people when they meet me in person, they're like, wow, Bill, you seem like a really nice guy. But things have been pretty calm for the last seven years.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

Whereas Herbalife, of course, was like an epic battle, even Canadian Pacific. So for a period there, most people when they meet me in person, they're like, wow, Bill, you seem like a really nice guy. But things have been pretty calm for the last seven years.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

Whereas Herbalife, of course, was like an epic battle, even Canadian Pacific. So for a period there, most people when they meet me in person, they're like, wow, Bill, you seem like a really nice guy. But things have been pretty calm for the last seven years.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

You know, it's a sad world that we live in, that one, we have terrorists, and two, that we could have such barbaric terrorism. And yeah, just a reminder of that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

You know, it's a sad world that we live in, that one, we have terrorists, and two, that we could have such barbaric terrorism. And yeah, just a reminder of that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

You know, it's a sad world that we live in, that one, we have terrorists, and two, that we could have such barbaric terrorism. And yeah, just a reminder of that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

With all of my posts about Israel, I'm obviously very supportive of the country of Israel, Israel's right to exist, Israel's right to defend itself. My Arab friends, my Palestinian friends, you know, were kind of saying, hey, Bill, where are you? You know, what about Palestinian lives? And I was pretty early in my life.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

With all of my posts about Israel, I'm obviously very supportive of the country of Israel, Israel's right to exist, Israel's right to defend itself. My Arab friends, my Palestinian friends, you know, were kind of saying, hey, Bill, where are you? You know, what about Palestinian lives? And I was pretty early in my life.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

With all of my posts about Israel, I'm obviously very supportive of the country of Israel, Israel's right to exist, Israel's right to defend itself. My Arab friends, my Palestinian friends, you know, were kind of saying, hey, Bill, where are you? You know, what about Palestinian lives? And I was pretty early in my life.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

A guy named Marty Peretz, who's been important to me over the course of my life, a professor, first investor in my fund, introduced me to Nary, asked me when I was right out of school to join this nonprofit called the Jerusalem Foundation, which was a charitable foundation that supported Teddy Kallak when he was mayor of

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

A guy named Marty Peretz, who's been important to me over the course of my life, a professor, first investor in my fund, introduced me to Nary, asked me when I was right out of school to join this nonprofit called the Jerusalem Foundation, which was a charitable foundation that supported Teddy Kallak when he was mayor of

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

A guy named Marty Peretz, who's been important to me over the course of my life, a professor, first investor in my fund, introduced me to Nary, asked me when I was right out of school to join this nonprofit called the Jerusalem Foundation, which was a charitable foundation that supported Teddy Kallak when he was mayor of

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

I ended up becoming the youngest chairman of the Jerusalem Foundation in my 30s, and I spent some time in Israel. And the early philanthropic stuff I did with the Jerusalem Foundation, the thing I was most interested in was kind of the Palestinian, the plight of the Palestinians. and kind of peaceful coexistence.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

I ended up becoming the youngest chairman of the Jerusalem Foundation in my 30s, and I spent some time in Israel. And the early philanthropic stuff I did with the Jerusalem Foundation, the thing I was most interested in was kind of the Palestinian, the plight of the Palestinians. and kind of peaceful coexistence.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

I ended up becoming the youngest chairman of the Jerusalem Foundation in my 30s, and I spent some time in Israel. And the early philanthropic stuff I did with the Jerusalem Foundation, the thing I was most interested in was kind of the Palestinian, the plight of the Palestinians. and kind of peaceful coexistence.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And so I had kind of an early kind of perspective and, you know, as chairman of the Jerusalem Foundation, I would go into, you know, Arab communities and I would meet with families in their homes. You know, you get a sense of the humanity of a people and I care about humanity. I generally take the side of people who've been disadvantaged.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And so I had kind of an early kind of perspective and, you know, as chairman of the Jerusalem Foundation, I would go into, you know, Arab communities and I would meet with families in their homes. You know, you get a sense of the humanity of a people and I care about humanity. I generally take the side of people who've been disadvantaged.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And so I had kind of an early kind of perspective and, you know, as chairman of the Jerusalem Foundation, I would go into, you know, Arab communities and I would meet with families in their homes. You know, you get a sense of the humanity of a people and I care about humanity. I generally take the side of people who've been disadvantaged.