Bill Ackman
17 statements across 4 episodes · 6 bullish · 3 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Apr 28, 2020 by Bill Ackman · said 19 times in 3 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2022 18 mentions in 2 episodes 9 per episode
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Apr 28, 2020
Pershing Square Executed Its Massive COVID-19 Portfolio Hedge in One Hour
“I mean, the, just most recently, our hedge that we put on to protect the portfolio, I guess, I wasn't specifically doing work on that investment at all, but I was thinking about the ramifications, for example, of the coronavirus, and then came to a conclusion …”
Apr 28, 2020
Apr 28, 2020 bullish
Pershing Square Bought $2.05 Billion in Equities While Unwinding COVID Hedge
“We'd invested two billion fifty million between March 12th and March 18th at 1230 in the stock market buying, you know, additions, adding to our portfolio, buying, repurchasing Starbucks. We had sold half the hedge for a 1,000,000,300, a little more than half …”
Apr 28, 2020
Ackman Attributes Business Judgment Failures to Distraction From Divorce
“It is, it can be very distracting to be contemplating whether one should stay married While running a business that requires, you know, a lot of, you know, judgment and clarity of thinking, and you know, I ultimately made some, you know, failures of judgment i…”
Apr 28, 2020 negative
Ackman: Top business school students lack experience dealing with failure
“The single most important thing you need to understand is how to deal with failure, and the vast majority of people who got to, you know, Harvard Business School, or pick your favorite you know, top business or law school has not had to deal with failure, and …”
Apr 28, 2020 neutral
Apr 28, 2020 negative
Ackman: Herbalife runs paid Google ads targeting my name
“Herbalife is still running a negative campaign about me personally, which I find fairly remarkable. The way you can see this is if you Google my name I don't know if you want to do this right now. What will pop up is an advertisement And it, the advertisement …”
Apr 28, 2020 positive
Ackman: Twitter gave a multi-day lead over traditional news during COVID
“And beginning sort of, as I got deeper into coronavirus, I started using Twitter actually as a news feed and found it to be very, very helpful and interesting. You know, almost having the experience of reading the news a couple of days before You read the news…”
Apr 28, 2020 negative
Ackman: Some Tesla short sellers crossed the line trying to harm company
“In the case of Tesla, you know, I do think, you know, some of the short sellers went beyond the role of identifying overvaluation and their attempts to actually harm a company, and that's where I think it goes beyond the pale.”
Apr 28, 2020 positive
Ackman: Short Sellers Uncover Corporate Fraud Much More Often Than Regulators
“I give a lot of credit to the folks at Muddy Waters who have unearthed a meaningful number of fraudulent companies, and I've yet to find an example of a regulator finding a fraudulent company. It's either a journalist often being fed by a short seller or a sho…”
Apr 28, 2020 positive
Apr 28, 2020
Ackman: I invest in startups partly to identify potential competitive threats
“And I'm a relatively small investor in, you know, startups and I do it for fun. I do it because, you know, occasionally I make a good investment and also it helps me see the future in terms of what potential threats are coming. That might disrupt either a busi…”
Apr 28, 2020
Jun 9, 2020 neutral
McLean: Unlike Enron, Valeant attracted smart money like Sequoia and Bill Ackman
“With Enron, when you got to what was commonly considered the smart money, people either weren't invested in Enron, or they were short. And it was largely long-only funds and index funds, and what we think of in terrible terms, but the dumb money that was inves…”
Jul 26, 2022
Wilkinson spent $60,000 on a charity lunch to diligence Bill Ackman
“What I ended up doing is I spent 60,000 dollars bidding on a charity lunch where I'm like, okay, I get to donate charity. I get to meet this interesting guy. And my plan was that if he was an asshole, I would sell all of it as soon as we got out. And if I like…”
Jul 26, 2022 bullish
Nov 29, 2022 positive
Creel: Bill Ackman offered $200M when asked for $100M in unplanned capex
“I went into the board meeting, and I said, we have an issue. For me to optimize my service, I've got to run west out of Saskatoon, not east, but I need a hundred million dollars to spend on rail and ties and ballasts, and that was not planned for at all, and B…”