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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

She's the most remarkable person I've ever met. And I've met a lot of remarkable people. And I'm incredibly fortunate to spend a very high percentage of my lifetime with her ever since I met her, you know, six years ago.

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

She's the most remarkable person I've ever met. And I've met a lot of remarkable people. And I'm incredibly fortunate to spend a very high percentage of my lifetime with her ever since I met her, you know, six years ago.

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

I mean, I met her at the bottom, which is not a bad place to meet someone if it works out.

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

I mean, I met her at the bottom, which is not a bad place to meet someone if it works out.

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

I mean, I met her at the bottom, which is not a bad place to meet someone if it works out.

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

Well, interestingly, we have a lot alike. We come from very similar places in the world. There are times where we feel like we've known each other for centuries. I met her parents for the first time a long time ago, almost six years ago as well. And I knew her parents were from Eastern Europe originally. So I asked her father what city did her family come from originally.

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

Well, interestingly, we have a lot alike. We come from very similar places in the world. There are times where we feel like we've known each other for centuries. I met her parents for the first time a long time ago, almost six years ago as well. And I knew her parents were from Eastern Europe originally. So I asked her father what city did her family come from originally.

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

Well, interestingly, we have a lot alike. We come from very similar places in the world. There are times where we feel like we've known each other for centuries. I met her parents for the first time a long time ago, almost six years ago as well. And I knew her parents were from Eastern Europe originally. So I asked her father what city did her family come from originally.

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

And I called my father and asked him, you know, dad, what's, you know, grandpa Abraham, what's the name of the city? And then I put the two cities into Google Maps and they were 52 miles apart, which I thought was pretty cool. Then of course, at some point we did genetic testing to make sure we weren't related, which we were not. But we share incredible commonality on values.

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

And I called my father and asked him, you know, dad, what's, you know, grandpa Abraham, what's the name of the city? And then I put the two cities into Google Maps and they were 52 miles apart, which I thought was pretty cool. Then of course, at some point we did genetic testing to make sure we weren't related, which we were not. But we share incredible commonality on values.

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

And I called my father and asked him, you know, dad, what's, you know, grandpa Abraham, what's the name of the city? And then I put the two cities into Google Maps and they were 52 miles apart, which I thought was pretty cool. Then of course, at some point we did genetic testing to make sure we weren't related, which we were not. But we share incredible commonality on values.

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

We are attracted to the same kind of people You know, she loves my friends. I love hers. We love doing the same kind of things. We're attracted to, you know, we like spending time the same ways. And she has, yes, more emotion, more elegance. She doesn't like battles, but she's very strong. But she's more sensitive than I am.

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

We are attracted to the same kind of people You know, she loves my friends. I love hers. We love doing the same kind of things. We're attracted to, you know, we like spending time the same ways. And she has, yes, more emotion, more elegance. She doesn't like battles, but she's very strong. But she's more sensitive than I am.

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

We are attracted to the same kind of people You know, she loves my friends. I love hers. We love doing the same kind of things. We're attracted to, you know, we like spending time the same ways. And she has, yes, more emotion, more elegance. She doesn't like battles, but she's very strong. But she's more sensitive than I am.

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

You know, that hasn't really been the case for a while. I've had relative peace for a long time, because as I stopped being, as I haven't had to be the kind of activist I was earlier in my career, I think since October 7th, yes, I do feel like I've been in a war. Can you tell me the saga of the accusations against Nary?

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

You know, that hasn't really been the case for a while. I've had relative peace for a long time, because as I stopped being, as I haven't had to be the kind of activist I was earlier in my career, I think since October 7th, yes, I do feel like I've been in a war. Can you tell me the saga of the accusations against Nary?

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

You know, that hasn't really been the case for a while. I've had relative peace for a long time, because as I stopped being, as I haven't had to be the kind of activist I was earlier in my career, I think since October 7th, yes, I do feel like I've been in a war. Can you tell me the saga of the accusations against Nary?

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

So, I did not actually surface the plagiarism allegations against President Gay that were surfaced by, you know, Aaron and maybe Christopher Ruffo as well, or maybe Chris helped promote what Aaron and some anonymous person did. identified, but I certainly, it was a point in time where the board had said we're 100% behind her and unanimously. And I really felt she had to go.

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

So, I did not actually surface the plagiarism allegations against President Gay that were surfaced by, you know, Aaron and maybe Christopher Ruffo as well, or maybe Chris helped promote what Aaron and some anonymous person did. identified, but I certainly, it was a point in time where the board had said we're 100% behind her and unanimously. And I really felt she had to go.

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

So, I did not actually surface the plagiarism allegations against President Gay that were surfaced by, you know, Aaron and maybe Christopher Ruffo as well, or maybe Chris helped promote what Aaron and some anonymous person did. identified, but I certainly, it was a point in time where the board had said we're 100% behind her and unanimously. And I really felt she had to go.