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Ackman: Inability to Short Venture-Backed Startups Enables WeWork-Style Value Destruction
“The market you can't short today is basically, or difficult to short today is the venture backed market. And that's why you're going to see, that's why the WeWorks of the world are allowed to happen and billions of dollars of money gets wasted.”
Ackman: Venture-Backed Companies Stay Private Too Long and Suffer Worse Governance
“Look, I think that a lot of companies have stayed private too long, and so I'm actually a fan of the public markets and a fan of public company governance versus the kind of governance that you've seen, certainly in many of the venture-backed companies, WeWork…”