{"id":33693,"date":"2024-05-15T19:53:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T02:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=33693"},"modified":"2024-05-15T19:53:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T02:53:24","slug":"an-activist-investor-on-challenging-the-status-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/an-activist-investor-on-challenging-the-status-quo\/","title":{"rendered":"An activist investor on challenging the status quo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-ted wp-block-embed-ted wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bill Ackman: An activist investor on challenging the status quo\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/bill_ackman_an_activist_investor_on_challenging_the_status_quo\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill Ackman\u00a0| TED2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 April 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill Ackman has made billions of dollars \u2014 and a name for himself \u2014 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&#8217;s bringing his activism into the social and political spheres \u2014 and shares his thoughts on free speech, his notoriously long posts on X, the conversation around Harvard and DEI and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/business\">Business<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/economics\">Economics<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/social+change\">Social Change<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/society\">Society<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/money\">Money<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/finance\">Finance<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/investing\">Investing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>TED is supported by ads and partners<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the speakers<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/bill_ackman\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/bill_ackman\">Bill Ackman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/bill_ackman\" target=\"_blank\">Founder and CEO, Pershing Square Capital ManagementSee speaker profile<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/alison_taylor\">Alison Taylor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/alison_taylor\">Business professor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Ackman\u00a0| TED2024 \u2022 April 2024 Bill Ackman has made billions of dollars \u2014 and a name for himself \u2014 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&#8217;s bringing&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/an-activist-investor-on-challenging-the-status-quo\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33694,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33693\/revisions\/33694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}