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Bill Ackman

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

And the tragedy is, you know, you look at what Singapore has achieved in the last 30 years, right?

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

So not just peace, but... Peace comes with prosperity. Um, you know, people are, you know, under the leadership of terrorists, you're not going to have prosperity and you're not going to have peace. And I think the, you know, the Israelis withdrew in 2005 and fairly quickly Hamas took control of the situation that would, that should never have been allowed to happen.

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

So not just peace, but... Peace comes with prosperity. Um, you know, people are, you know, under the leadership of terrorists, you're not going to have prosperity and you're not going to have peace. And I think the, you know, the Israelis withdrew in 2005 and fairly quickly Hamas took control of the situation that would, that should never have been allowed to happen.

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

So not just peace, but... Peace comes with prosperity. Um, you know, people are, you know, under the leadership of terrorists, you're not going to have prosperity and you're not going to have peace. And I think the, you know, the Israelis withdrew in 2005 and fairly quickly Hamas took control of the situation that would, that should never have been allowed to happen.

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

Um, and I think, you know, if you think about, I, I had the opportunity to, to spend a, what I'd call it an hour with Henry Kissinger, uh, a few months before he passed away. And we were talking about, uh, Gaza or in the early stage of the war, he said, look, you know, this is not, uh, you can think about Gaza as the, as a test of a two state solution. It's not looking good. These were his words.

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

Um, and I think, you know, if you think about, I, I had the opportunity to, to spend a, what I'd call it an hour with Henry Kissinger, uh, a few months before he passed away. And we were talking about, uh, Gaza or in the early stage of the war, he said, look, you know, this is not, uh, you can think about Gaza as the, as a test of a two state solution. It's not looking good. These were his words.

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

Um, and I think, you know, if you think about, I, I had the opportunity to, to spend a, what I'd call it an hour with Henry Kissinger, uh, a few months before he passed away. And we were talking about, uh, Gaza or in the early stage of the war, he said, look, you know, this is not, uh, you can think about Gaza as the, as a test of a two state solution. It's not looking good. These were his words.

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

Uh, so the next time round, you know, the Palestinian people should have their own state, but it can't be a state where, you know, 40 billion resources goes in and is spent on weaponry and missiles and rockets going into Gaza. And I do think a consortium of the Gulf states, the Saudis and others, have to ultimately oversee the governance of this region.

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

Uh, so the next time round, you know, the Palestinian people should have their own state, but it can't be a state where, you know, 40 billion resources goes in and is spent on weaponry and missiles and rockets going into Gaza. And I do think a consortium of the Gulf states, the Saudis and others, have to ultimately oversee the governance of this region.

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

Uh, so the next time round, you know, the Palestinian people should have their own state, but it can't be a state where, you know, 40 billion resources goes in and is spent on weaponry and missiles and rockets going into Gaza. And I do think a consortium of the Gulf states, the Saudis and others, have to ultimately oversee the governance of this region.

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

I think if that can happen, I think you can have peace, you can have prosperity. And I'm fundamentally an optimist. So a coalition of governance groups. Governance matters, you know, going back to what we talked about before.

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

I think if that can happen, I think you can have peace, you can have prosperity. And I'm fundamentally an optimist. So a coalition of governance groups. Governance matters, you know, going back to what we talked about before.

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

I think if that can happen, I think you can have peace, you can have prosperity. And I'm fundamentally an optimist. So a coalition of governance groups. Governance matters, you know, going back to what we talked about before.

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

I mean, look at what Dubai has accomplished with, you know, nomads in the desert, right? And that's become a major, it's a tourist destination. Gaza could have been a tourist destination.

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

I mean, look at what Dubai has accomplished with, you know, nomads in the desert, right? And that's become a major, it's a tourist destination. Gaza could have been a tourist destination.

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

I mean, look at what Dubai has accomplished with, you know, nomads in the desert, right? And that's become a major, it's a tourist destination. Gaza could have been a tourist destination.

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

So it begins on October 8th, probably, and You know, you can do a compare and contrast with how Dartmouth managed the events of October 7th and the aftermath and how Harvard did.

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

So it begins on October 8th, probably, and You know, you can do a compare and contrast with how Dartmouth managed the events of October 7th and the aftermath and how Harvard did.

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

So it begins on October 8th, probably, and You know, you can do a compare and contrast with how Dartmouth managed the events of October 7th and the aftermath and how Harvard did.

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

And on October 8th, or shortly thereafter, the Dartmouth president, who had been in her job for precisely the same number of months that the Harvard president had been in her job, the first thing she did is she got the most important professors of Middle East studies who were Arab and who were Jews and convened them and held an open session, Q&A, for students to talk about what's going on in the Middle East.