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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

Yeah.

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

Yeah.

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

Yeah.

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

The problem is the party system is so screwed up and the parties are self-interested and there's another governance problem, right? An incentive problem. Michael Porter, who was one of my professors at Harvard Business School, wrote a brilliant piece on the American political system and all the incentives and market dynamics and what he called a competitive analysis. And it's a must read.

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

The problem is the party system is so screwed up and the parties are self-interested and there's another governance problem, right? An incentive problem. Michael Porter, who was one of my professors at Harvard Business School, wrote a brilliant piece on the American political system and all the incentives and market dynamics and what he called a competitive analysis. And it's a must read.

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

The problem is the party system is so screwed up and the parties are self-interested and there's another governance problem, right? An incentive problem. Michael Porter, who was one of my professors at Harvard Business School, wrote a brilliant piece on the American political system and all the incentives and market dynamics and what he called a competitive analysis. And it's a must read.

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

I should dig it up and send it around on X. But it explains how the parties and the incentives of these sort of self-sustaining entities where the people involved are not incentivized to do what's best for the country. It's a problem.

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

I should dig it up and send it around on X. But it explains how the parties and the incentives of these sort of self-sustaining entities where the people involved are not incentivized to do what's best for the country. It's a problem.

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

I should dig it up and send it around on X. But it explains how the parties and the incentives of these sort of self-sustaining entities where the people involved are not incentivized to do what's best for the country. It's a problem.

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

Yes.

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

Yes.

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

Yes.

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

I think he's a honest, smart, motivated, capable, proven guy as a business leader. And I think in his three terms in Congress, he ran when Trump was elected. He said his kids cried, his daughters cried. Inspired him to run for office. Ran in a Republican district in Minnesota for the last 60 years. Was elected in the landslide. Has been reelected twice. Moved up the ranks in the Congress.

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

I think he's a honest, smart, motivated, capable, proven guy as a business leader. And I think in his three terms in Congress, he ran when Trump was elected. He said his kids cried, his daughters cried. Inspired him to run for office. Ran in a Republican district in Minnesota for the last 60 years. Was elected in the landslide. Has been reelected twice. Moved up the ranks in the Congress.

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

I think he's a honest, smart, motivated, capable, proven guy as a business leader. And I think in his three terms in Congress, he ran when Trump was elected. He said his kids cried, his daughters cried. Inspired him to run for office. Ran in a Republican district in Minnesota for the last 60 years. Was elected in the landslide. Has been reelected twice. Moved up the ranks in the Congress.

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

Respected by his fellow members of Congress. Advanced some important legislation during COVID. Senior roles on various foreign policy committees. Centrist. you know, considered, I think the second most bipartisan member of the Congress. I'd love to have a bipartisan president. That's the only way to get kind of go forward.

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

Respected by his fellow members of Congress. Advanced some important legislation during COVID. Senior roles on various foreign policy committees. Centrist. you know, considered, I think the second most bipartisan member of the Congress. I'd love to have a bipartisan president. That's the only way to get kind of go forward.

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

Respected by his fellow members of Congress. Advanced some important legislation during COVID. Senior roles on various foreign policy committees. Centrist. you know, considered, I think the second most bipartisan member of the Congress. I'd love to have a bipartisan president. That's the only way to get kind of go forward.

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

But we'd enormously benefit if we had a president that chose policies on the basis of what's best for the country, as opposed to what his party wanted. What I like about him is he's financially independent. He's not a The party hates him now because he challenged the King, right? And so, but he's willing to give up his political career because what he thought was best for the country.

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

But we'd enormously benefit if we had a president that chose policies on the basis of what's best for the country, as opposed to what his party wanted. What I like about him is he's financially independent. He's not a The party hates him now because he challenged the King, right? And so, but he's willing to give up his political career because what he thought was best for the country.