Bill Ackman
14 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 20, 2023 by Bill Ackman · said 15 times in 11 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (13), Mario Schlosser (1), Eric Liaw (1)
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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2024 8 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Alex Wang: Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance | E1164 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Joe Lonsdale: The Future of TikTok; Is it a Danger to US National Security? | E1125 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Brian Halligan: Leadership Lessons Scaling Hubspot to $28BN | E1103 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Bill Ackman, oldest first
Mar 20, 2023
Mar 20, 2023 positive
Ackman: Expanding immigration is the best way to curb inflation
“The best way to solve that problem is to open up immigration, right? Why, why force people out of work to slow the economy to get rid of inflation? Why not increase the supply of workers so that you know, we temper the increases in wages? I just think it's a b…”
Mar 20, 2023
Ackman Raised $3.1 Million From Six LPs to Launch Gotham Partners
“But we had I think we eventually saw well over a hundred people, and we had six people ultimately say yes and give us money, and the six people totaled, look, 3.1 million dollars. Actually three million, and my partner and I put up a hundred together.”
Mar 20, 2023
Ackman: Disappointments in Business Came From Ignoring Initial Gut Instincts
“Probably, probably neither but I would say I form a view of a person's character pretty quickly, and the vast majority of the time I've been right with only a few disappointments, I would say. And the disappointments have been cases, in most cases, and there h…”
Mar 20, 2023 bullish
Ackman: Universal Music Group is the best 10-year long holding
“Well, I would say of the businesses we own, I would say in an uncertain world, you got to own universal music company, universal music group. Because the one thing I'm confident about is more people will have music subscriptions or be streaming music from what…”
Mar 20, 2023 bearish
Ackman: Monopolistic legacy companies are guaranteed to be disrupted by blockchain
“There are businesses that are guaranteed to be disrupted by blockchain that are old fashioned, old, you know, businesses that everyone hates because they're monopolists and you can disrupt them with blockchain technology. So I would be short those companies.”
Mar 20, 2023
Mar 20, 2023
Ackman: Beyond basic security and education, housing wealth does not impact child development
“I don't know that it matters so much whether you live in a 300,000 dollar house Or a two million dollar house, or a twenty million dollar house, or whether your parents drive a Toyota. You know, I think that the major differences are, you have access to a good…”
Mar 20, 2023 neutral
Mar 20, 2023 positive
Mar 20, 2023
Ackman: 98% of a successful marriage depends on partner selection
“So it starts with finding the right person, I would say. That's about 98%. You can have, you can choose the wrong person, and you can do all the right things, and it's not going to make for a great marriage. So I would say, it's a lot in the selection, the mut…”
Mar 20, 2023 bearish
Ackman predicts persistent 3% to 4% inflation for foreseeable future
“The world is a structurally different place than it was for the last 20 odd years, and you're going to see persistent levels of inflation, you know, three to four percent inflation for the foreseeable future. I think that, that's certainly being missed based o…”
Jun 9, 2023
Feb 9, 2024 negative
Ackman: Timidity in position sizing held back Pershing Square's results
“It was less than, it was about a point and a half of our, a little under two percent of our capital, but could it have been three percent? Could have been four percent for sure. And so when I look back at something like that, I would have been willing to lose …”