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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

Bill Ackman: Investment Strategy, What the Market is Missing, How AI Breaks Businesses

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

All-In Podcast, LLC

Business, Entrepreneurship, Technology

4.010.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

(0:00) Bill Ackman joins the show!

(0:30) Evolving investment philosophy: What's changed over 20 years?

(4:40) AI: Greatest time to build a business, and a major threat to portfolios

(7:50) Predicting market moves, the "rubber band effect"

(16:00) Owning founder-led companies

(19:30) Building the next Berkshire Hathaway

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Transcript

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0:00.0

One of the most provocative and interesting investors in the country.

0:04.0

A legendary activist investor.

0:06.0

Pershing Square CEO and founder Bill Ackman.

0:10.0

Taking a short position and going public with it is a pretty serious business.

0:14.7

Interestingly, some of the best businesses in the world are trading at the lowest multiples.

0:18.1

We're kind of the rebirth of the closed-end investment company universe.

0:22.4

What did you think of Zara, the CEO of Open AI? I'm sorry, CFO. Felt like the CEO.

0:28.6

Yeah, I was...

0:29.7

Stop with that stuff. Actually, I was super impressed.

0:34.1

Made me a lot more bullish on Open AI. And I thought... Right? I thought she should be CEO of Open AI. That's what I thought. I think Sam should be chair. I think he's much better. There was a question I wanted to ask her that we didn't get time, which was what's it like working with Sam? I mean, that could have been like three hours in the documentary. I wanted to kick this off. So thank you so much for being here.

0:55.6

We've tried a number of times to get you to all in, and it's great to finally have you.

1:00.4

You obviously are a legend that doesn't need much of an introduction.

1:04.0

Lately, in the last number of, call it years or months or quarters or what have you,

1:08.1

it seems like your investment philosophy may be changing,

1:12.7

your model, where you've been activist and you've entered positions and exited positions,

1:16.8

and lately you've talked a lot about more kind of permanent long-term holdings.

1:20.5

We'd love to hear a little bit about if that is actually a change and how your evolution

1:24.2

and your investment model has kind of changed over time?

1:28.0

Sure. So I would say the biggest change over time is an appreciation for the importance of

1:32.6

what I would call business quality, long-term, durable, protected, non-disruptible growth.

1:38.3

I would say early days, you're smaller, more liquid investor. You don't have to think as long-term as you

1:45.5

become a bigger concentrated investor and over time you learn the importance of

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