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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

And we've gone through a really difficult period and it's time. We need a break. But look, I think the United States is an incredibly resilient country. We have some incredible moats. Among them, we have the Atlantic and the Pacific, and we have peaceful neighbors to the north and the south. We're an enormously rich country. Capitalism still works effectively here.

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

I get optimistic about the world when I talk to my friends who are either venture capitalists or my hobby of backing these young entrepreneurs. I talk to a founder of a startup if you want to get optimistic about the world. So I think technology is going to save us.

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

I get optimistic about the world when I talk to my friends who are either venture capitalists or my hobby of backing these young entrepreneurs. I talk to a founder of a startup if you want to get optimistic about the world. So I think technology is going to save us.

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

I get optimistic about the world when I talk to my friends who are either venture capitalists or my hobby of backing these young entrepreneurs. I talk to a founder of a startup if you want to get optimistic about the world. So I think technology is going to save us.

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

I think AI, of course, has its frightening Terminator-like scenarios, but I'm going to take the opposite view that this is going to be a huge enabler of productivity, scientific discovery, drug discovery, and it's going to make us healthier, happier, and better. So I do think the internet revolution had a lot of good, obviously some bad.

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

I think AI, of course, has its frightening Terminator-like scenarios, but I'm going to take the opposite view that this is going to be a huge enabler of productivity, scientific discovery, drug discovery, and it's going to make us healthier, happier, and better. So I do think the internet revolution had a lot of good, obviously some bad.

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

I think AI, of course, has its frightening Terminator-like scenarios, but I'm going to take the opposite view that this is going to be a huge enabler of productivity, scientific discovery, drug discovery, and it's going to make us healthier, happier, and better. So I do think the internet revolution had a lot of good, obviously some bad.

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

I think the AI revolution is going to be similar, but we're at this other really interesting juncture

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

I think the AI revolution is going to be similar, but we're at this other really interesting juncture

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

I think the AI revolution is going to be similar, but we're at this other really interesting juncture

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

uh in the world uh you know with uh technology and we're going to have to use it for our good uh on the media front i'm happy about x and i think uh elon's gonna be successful here uh i think advertisers will realize it's a really good platform the best way to reach uh me if you want to sell something to me i suppose i've actually bought stuff on uh some some ads and x i don't remember the last time i responded to direct response advertising you know in terms of uh

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

uh in the world uh you know with uh technology and we're going to have to use it for our good uh on the media front i'm happy about x and i think uh elon's gonna be successful here uh i think advertisers will realize it's a really good platform the best way to reach uh me if you want to sell something to me i suppose i've actually bought stuff on uh some some ads and x i don't remember the last time i responded to direct response advertising you know in terms of uh

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

uh in the world uh you know with uh technology and we're going to have to use it for our good uh on the media front i'm happy about x and i think uh elon's gonna be successful here uh i think advertisers will realize it's a really good platform the best way to reach uh me if you want to sell something to me i suppose i've actually bought stuff on uh some some ads and x i don't remember the last time i responded to direct response advertising you know in terms of uh

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

My business, I have an incredible team. It's tiny. We're one of the smallest firms relative to the assets we manage. It's a bit like the Navy SEALs, not the US Army. We have only 40 people at Pershing Square. So it's a tight team. I think we'll do great things. I think we're early on. My ambitions investment-wise, I've always said I'd like to have a record as good as Warren Buffett's.

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

My business, I have an incredible team. It's tiny. We're one of the smallest firms relative to the assets we manage. It's a bit like the Navy SEALs, not the US Army. We have only 40 people at Pershing Square. So it's a tight team. I think we'll do great things. I think we're early on. My ambitions investment-wise, I've always said I'd like to have a record as good as Warren Buffett's.

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

My business, I have an incredible team. It's tiny. We're one of the smallest firms relative to the assets we manage. It's a bit like the Navy SEALs, not the US Army. We have only 40 people at Pershing Square. So it's a tight team. I think we'll do great things. I think we're early on. My ambitions investment-wise, I've always said I'd like to have a record as good as Warren Buffett's.

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

The problem is each year he adds on another year. He's now in his 93rd year. So I've got 36 more years to just get where he is. And I think he's going to add a lot more years. I'm excited about seeing what Neri is going to produce. You know, she's building an incredible company. They're trying to solve a lot of problems with respect to products and buildings. and their impact on the environment.

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

The problem is each year he adds on another year. He's now in his 93rd year. So I've got 36 more years to just get where he is. And I think he's going to add a lot more years. I'm excited about seeing what Neri is going to produce. You know, she's building an incredible company. They're trying to solve a lot of problems with respect to products and buildings. and their impact on the environment.

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

The problem is each year he adds on another year. He's now in his 93rd year. So I've got 36 more years to just get where he is. And I think he's going to add a lot more years. I'm excited about seeing what Neri is going to produce. You know, she's building an incredible company. They're trying to solve a lot of problems with respect to products and buildings. and their impact on the environment.

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

Her vision is how do we design products that by virtue of the product's existence, the world is a better place. You know, today, you make, you know, her world is a world where the existence of the new car actually is better for the environment than if the new car hadn't existed. And think about that in every product scale. That's what she's working on. I don't want to give away too much.