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Bill Ackman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

Um, and then I reached out to her again, said, look, I'll, I'll facilitate your attendance in the, in the Congress, you know, come see the film. I'll fly you down. That was rejected. And then she testified. And I watched a good percentage, 80% of the testimony of all three presidents. And it was an embarrassment to the country, embarrassment to the universities. They were evasive.

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

They didn't answer questions. They were rude. They smirked. They looked very disrespectful to our Congress. And then, of course, there was that several minutes where finally, at least Stefanik was not getting answers to her questions. And she said... Let me be kind of clear. What if protesters were calling for genocide for the Jews? Does that violate your rules on bullying and harassment?

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

They didn't answer questions. They were rude. They smirked. They looked very disrespectful to our Congress. And then, of course, there was that several minutes where finally, at least Stefanik was not getting answers to her questions. And she said... Let me be kind of clear. What if protesters were calling for genocide for the Jews? Does that violate your rules on bullying and harassment?

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

They didn't answer questions. They were rude. They smirked. They looked very disrespectful to our Congress. And then, of course, there was that several minutes where finally, at least Stefanik was not getting answers to her questions. And she said... Let me be kind of clear. What if protesters were calling for genocide for the Jews? Does that violate your rules on bullying and harassment?

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

And the three of them basically gave the same answer. It depends on the context. And not until they actually... executed on the genocide, does the university have the right to intervene? And the thing that perhaps bothered me the most was the incredible hypocrisy.

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

And the three of them basically gave the same answer. It depends on the context. And not until they actually... executed on the genocide, does the university have the right to intervene? And the thing that perhaps bothered me the most was the incredible hypocrisy.

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

And the three of them basically gave the same answer. It depends on the context. And not until they actually... executed on the genocide, does the university have the right to intervene? And the thing that perhaps bothered me the most was the incredible hypocrisy.

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

You know, Harvard was, you know, each of these universities are ranked by this entity called FIRE, which is a nonprofit that focuses on free speech on campus. Harvard has been in the bottom quartile for the last five years and dropped to last before October 7th out of 250.

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

You know, Harvard was, you know, each of these universities are ranked by this entity called FIRE, which is a nonprofit that focuses on free speech on campus. Harvard has been in the bottom quartile for the last five years and dropped to last before October 7th out of 250.

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

You know, Harvard was, you know, each of these universities are ranked by this entity called FIRE, which is a nonprofit that focuses on free speech on campus. Harvard has been in the bottom quartile for the last five years and dropped to last before October 7th out of 250.

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

Harvard has become a place where free speech is not tolerated on campus, or at least... Free speech that's not part of the accepted dialogue or, you know, this whole notion of speech codes and microaggressions really emerged on the elite, you know, the Harvard, Yale campuses of the world.

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

Harvard has become a place where free speech is not tolerated on campus, or at least... Free speech that's not part of the accepted dialogue or, you know, this whole notion of speech codes and microaggressions really emerged on the elite, you know, the Harvard, Yale campuses of the world.

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

Harvard has become a place where free speech is not tolerated on campus, or at least... Free speech that's not part of the accepted dialogue or, you know, this whole notion of speech codes and microaggressions really emerged on the elite, you know, the Harvard, Yale campuses of the world.

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

And, you know, the president of Harvard's, then president of Harvard's explanation for why, you know, you could call for the genocide of the Jewish people on campus was Harvard's commitment to free expression. Right. And, you know, one of the more hypocritical statements of all time. And you really can't have it both ways. Either Harvard has to be a place where it's a free speech.

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

And, you know, the president of Harvard's, then president of Harvard's explanation for why, you know, you could call for the genocide of the Jewish people on campus was Harvard's commitment to free expression. Right. And, you know, one of the more hypocritical statements of all time. And you really can't have it both ways. Either Harvard has to be a place where it's a free speech.

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

And, you know, the president of Harvard's, then president of Harvard's explanation for why, you know, you could call for the genocide of the Jewish people on campus was Harvard's commitment to free expression. Right. And, you know, one of the more hypocritical statements of all time. And you really can't have it both ways. Either Harvard has to be a place where it's a free speech.

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

She basically said we're a free speech absolutist place, which is why we have to allow this. And Harvard could not be further from that. And so that was a big part of it. And I was in the barber chair, if you will, getting haircut. And I had a guy on my team send me the three-minute section. I said, cut that line of questioning. And I put out a little tweet on that.

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

She basically said we're a free speech absolutist place, which is why we have to allow this. And Harvard could not be further from that. And so that was a big part of it. And I was in the barber chair, if you will, getting haircut. And I had a guy on my team send me the three-minute section. I said, cut that line of questioning. And I put out a little tweet on that.

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

She basically said we're a free speech absolutist place, which is why we have to allow this. And Harvard could not be further from that. And so that was a big part of it. And I was in the barber chair, if you will, getting haircut. And I had a guy on my team send me the three-minute section. I said, cut that line of questioning. And I put out a little tweet on that.

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

And I call it my greatest hits of posts. It's got something like 110 million views. views. And everyone looked at this and said, what is wrong with university campuses? and their leadership, and their governance, by the way. You know, in a way, this whole conversation's been about governance. Harvard has a disastrous governance structure, which is why we have the problem we have.