Wilkinson spent $60,000 on a charity lunch to diligence Bill Ackman
Andrew Wilkinson · Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings · Jul 26, 2022 · at 53:58
Andrew Wilkinson describes how he evaluated investing in Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Holdings.
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“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 liked him, then I'd keep it and maybe buy more. And so I ended up meeting Bill and Bill just blew my socks off.”
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