Bill Ackman

Founder and CEO, Pershing Square Capital Management

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Bill Ackman is founder and CEO of the investment firm Pershing Square Capital Management and a storied activist investor. He is a member of the board of Universal Music Group and is co-trustee of The Pershing Square Foundation, a family foundation supporting those tackling important issues worldwide.

Bill Ackman’s TED Talk

Bill Ackman, Alison Taylor
An activist investor on challenging the status quo
23 minutes 49 seconds
Bill Ackman has made billions of dollars — and a name for himself — as an activist investor, buying up stock to push for change at companies. In this wide-ranging conversation with author and business ethics professor Alison Taylor, Ackman discusses how he's bringing his activism into the social and political spheres — and shares his thoughts on free speech, his notoriously long posts on X, the conversation around Harvard and DEI and more.
Posted May 2024

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Bold ideas often meet resistance — but what if they were met with curiosity? Session 5 of TED2024 didn’t shy away from audacious ideas. Instead, it invited us all to embrace the discomfort of considering the impossible and unfamiliar, to find the courage to step into someone else’s shoes and assume goodness in those around […]
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Bill Ackman

Why you should listen

Bill Ackman’s TED Talk

More news and ideas from Bill Ackman

Provocateurs: Notes on Session 5 of TED2024