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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

They made us like, you know, prove to us she's no longer on the MIT faculty because they wanted to get her fired. And by the way, malice is one of the, you know, important factors in determining whether defamation has taken place. And this was a malice driven, this was not about news. And the unfortunate thing about journalism Business Insider made a fortune from this.

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

They made us like, you know, prove to us she's no longer on the MIT faculty because they wanted to get her fired. And by the way, malice is one of the, you know, important factors in determining whether defamation has taken place. And this was a malice driven, this was not about news. And the unfortunate thing about journalism Business Insider made a fortune from this.

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

This story was published and republished by thousands of media organizations around the world. It was the number one trending thing on Twitter for like two days. Every newspaper, it was on the front page of every Israeli newspaper, you know, it was on the front page of the Financial Times. Okay, so this... And she's building a business.

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

This story was published and republished by thousands of media organizations around the world. It was the number one trending thing on Twitter for like two days. Every newspaper, it was on the front page of every Israeli newspaper, you know, it was on the front page of the Financial Times. Okay, so this... And she's building a business.

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

This story was published and republished by thousands of media organizations around the world. It was the number one trending thing on Twitter for like two days. Every newspaper, it was on the front page of every Israeli newspaper, you know, it was on the front page of the Financial Times. Okay, so this... And she's building a business.

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

And if you're CEO of a science company and you committed academic fraud, that's incredibly damaging. But I ultimately convinced her that this was good. I said, sweetheart, you're amazing. You're incredible. You're incredibly talented, but you're mostly known in the design world. Now, everyone in the universe, okay, has heard of Neri Oxman, okay? We're gonna get this thing cleared up.

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

And if you're CEO of a science company and you committed academic fraud, that's incredibly damaging. But I ultimately convinced her that this was good. I said, sweetheart, you're amazing. You're incredible. You're incredibly talented, but you're mostly known in the design world. Now, everyone in the universe, okay, has heard of Neri Oxman, okay? We're gonna get this thing cleared up.

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

And if you're CEO of a science company and you committed academic fraud, that's incredibly damaging. But I ultimately convinced her that this was good. I said, sweetheart, you're amazing. You're incredible. You're incredibly talented, but you're mostly known in the design world. Now, everyone in the universe, okay, has heard of Neri Oxman, okay? We're gonna get this thing cleared up.

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

You're gonna be doing an event in six months where you're gonna tell the world, you're gonna go out of stealth mode, you're gonna tell the world about all the incredible things that you're building and you're designing and you're creating. And it's gonna be like the iPhone launch, because everyone's gonna be paying attention, and they're gonna wanna see your work.

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

You're gonna be doing an event in six months where you're gonna tell the world, you're gonna go out of stealth mode, you're gonna tell the world about all the incredible things that you're building and you're designing and you're creating. And it's gonna be like the iPhone launch, because everyone's gonna be paying attention, and they're gonna wanna see your work.

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

You're gonna be doing an event in six months where you're gonna tell the world, you're gonna go out of stealth mode, you're gonna tell the world about all the incredible things that you're building and you're designing and you're creating. And it's gonna be like the iPhone launch, because everyone's gonna be paying attention, and they're gonna wanna see your work.

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

And that's how I try to cheer her up, but I think it's true.

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

And that's how I try to cheer her up, but I think it's true.

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

And that's how I try to cheer her up, but I think it's true.

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

She's full speed ahead in her work. She's built an amazing team. She's hired 30 scientists, roboticists, biologists, plant specialists, material scientists, engineers, really incredible crew. She's built this 36,000 square foot lab in New York City that's one of a kind. They're working out of it. It's still under construction while they're working out of it.

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

She's full speed ahead in her work. She's built an amazing team. She's hired 30 scientists, roboticists, biologists, plant specialists, material scientists, engineers, really incredible crew. She's built this 36,000 square foot lab in New York City that's one of a kind. They're working out of it. It's still under construction while they're working out of it.

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

She's full speed ahead in her work. She's built an amazing team. She's hired 30 scientists, roboticists, biologists, plant specialists, material scientists, engineers, really incredible crew. She's built this 36,000 square foot lab in New York City that's one of a kind. They're working out of it. It's still under construction while they're working out of it.

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

Um, and so she's going to do amazing things. But, um, as I said, she's an extremely sensitive person. She's a perfectionist. Okay. Imagine thinking that the entire world thinks you committed academic fraud. And so that was very hard for her. She's a very positive person, but I saw her and I would say her darkest emotional period for sure. She's doing much better now, but you can kill someone.

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

Um, and so she's going to do amazing things. But, um, as I said, she's an extremely sensitive person. She's a perfectionist. Okay. Imagine thinking that the entire world thinks you committed academic fraud. And so that was very hard for her. She's a very positive person, but I saw her and I would say her darkest emotional period for sure. She's doing much better now, but you can kill someone.

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

Um, and so she's going to do amazing things. But, um, as I said, she's an extremely sensitive person. She's a perfectionist. Okay. Imagine thinking that the entire world thinks you committed academic fraud. And so that was very hard for her. She's a very positive person, but I saw her and I would say her darkest emotional period for sure. She's doing much better now, but you can kill someone.