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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

And faculty, Harvard faculty were telling me that, you know, there's really is no such thing as free speech on campus. And that, you know, there was a survey done. I don't know, a year or so ago, the Harvard faculty and only 2% of the faculty admitted, even in an anonymous survey, admitted to having a conservative point of view.

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

So we have a campus that's 98% non-conservative, liberal, progressive. uh, that's adopted this DEI construct. Um, and this, and then I learned from a member of the search committee for the Harvard president, uh, that they were restricted in looking at candidates, only those who met the DEI offices criteria. And I shared this in one of my postings and I was accused of being a racist. Um,

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

So we have a campus that's 98% non-conservative, liberal, progressive. uh, that's adopted this DEI construct. Um, and this, and then I learned from a member of the search committee for the Harvard president, uh, that they were restricted in looking at candidates, only those who met the DEI offices criteria. And I shared this in one of my postings and I was accused of being a racist. Um,

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

So we have a campus that's 98% non-conservative, liberal, progressive. uh, that's adopted this DEI construct. Um, and this, and then I learned from a member of the search committee for the Harvard president, uh, that they were restricted in looking at candidates, only those who met the DEI offices criteria. And I shared this in one of my postings and I was accused of being a racist. Um,

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

But, and that's someone who believes in that diversity is a very good thing for organizations and that equity and fairness is really important. And having an inclusive culture is critical, you know, for a functioning of our organization.

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

But, and that's someone who believes in that diversity is a very good thing for organizations and that equity and fairness is really important. And having an inclusive culture is critical, you know, for a functioning of our organization.

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

But, and that's someone who believes in that diversity is a very good thing for organizations and that equity and fairness is really important. And having an inclusive culture is critical, you know, for a functioning of our organization.

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

You know, so here I was, someone who was like, okay, DEI sounds good to me, you know, at least in the small d, small e, i version of events, but this DEI ideology is really problematic. So what's the way to fix this?

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

You know, so here I was, someone who was like, okay, DEI sounds good to me, you know, at least in the small d, small e, i version of events, but this DEI ideology is really problematic. So what's the way to fix this?

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

You know, so here I was, someone who was like, okay, DEI sounds good to me, you know, at least in the small d, small e, i version of events, but this DEI ideology is really problematic. So what's the way to fix this?

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

The things you saw at Harvard and elsewhere. In the same way this was an eye-opening event for me, it has been for a very broad range of other people. I've never gotten, you know, I mentioned general growth. I got a lot of nice letters from people for making money on a stock that went up 100 times.

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

The things you saw at Harvard and elsewhere. In the same way this was an eye-opening event for me, it has been for a very broad range of other people. I've never gotten, you know, I mentioned general growth. I got a lot of nice letters from people for making money on a stock that went up 100 times.

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

The things you saw at Harvard and elsewhere. In the same way this was an eye-opening event for me, it has been for a very broad range of other people. I've never gotten, you know, I mentioned general growth. I got a lot of nice letters from people for making money on a stock that went up 100 times.

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

But I literally get hundreds of emails, letters, texts, handwritten letters, type letters from people the ages of 25 to 85 saying, Bill, this is so important. Thanks for speaking out in this. You were saying what so many of us believe but have been afraid to say. I described it as almost a McCarthy-esque kind of movement and that if you challenge the DEI construct,

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

But I literally get hundreds of emails, letters, texts, handwritten letters, type letters from people the ages of 25 to 85 saying, Bill, this is so important. Thanks for speaking out in this. You were saying what so many of us believe but have been afraid to say. I described it as almost a McCarthy-esque kind of movement and that if you challenge the DEI construct,

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

But I literally get hundreds of emails, letters, texts, handwritten letters, type letters from people the ages of 25 to 85 saying, Bill, this is so important. Thanks for speaking out in this. You were saying what so many of us believe but have been afraid to say. I described it as almost a McCarthy-esque kind of movement and that if you challenge the DEI construct,

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

people accuse you of being a racist. It's happened to me already. Uh, you know, I'm perhaps, uh, you know, I'm much less vulnerable than a university professor who can get shouted off campus and canceled. I'm, I'm sort of difficult to cancel. Uh, but that doesn't mean people aren't going to try. And, uh, you know, I've been the victim of a couple of, uh,

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

people accuse you of being a racist. It's happened to me already. Uh, you know, I'm perhaps, uh, you know, I'm much less vulnerable than a university professor who can get shouted off campus and canceled. I'm, I'm sort of difficult to cancel. Uh, but that doesn't mean people aren't going to try. And, uh, you know, I've been the victim of a couple of, uh,

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

people accuse you of being a racist. It's happened to me already. Uh, you know, I'm perhaps, uh, you know, I'm much less vulnerable than a university professor who can get shouted off campus and canceled. I'm, I'm sort of difficult to cancel. Uh, but that doesn't mean people aren't going to try. And, uh, you know, I've been the victim of a couple of, uh,

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

interesting articles in the last few days, or at least one in particular in the Washington Post, written by what I thought was a well-meaning reporter. But it's just clear that I've taken on some big parts of at least the progressive establishment, DEI. I'm also a believer that Biden should have stepped aside a long time ago, and it's only getting worse. So I'm attacking the president.