Bill Ackman: Investment Strategy, What the Market is Missing, How AI Breaks Businesses
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
All-In Podcast, LLC
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🗓️ 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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| 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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