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Every book Bill Ackman recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Bill Ackman has recommended or discussed 4 books on podcasts, as of November 13, 2024.
- Bill Ackman has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of November 13, 2024.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of November 13, 2024.
- The 3 books Bill Ackman has mentioned in the most episodes, as of November 13, 2024: America's Cultural Revolution, The intelligent investor and The Strange Death of Europe.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Bill Ackman aired on November 13, 2024.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Bill Ackman appears on, in one place — not just one.
William Albert Ackman is an American billionaire hedge fund manager who is the founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, an investment management company. He has been described as an activist investor. As of April 2026, Ackman's net worth was estimated at $8 billion by Bloomberg. Discussing books on podcasts, Ackman appeared on The Megyn Kelly Show where he talked about a dinner with Douglas Murray and recalled Murray's book The Strange Death of Europe, which serves as a warning about immigration and identity. On the Lex Fridman Podcast, Ackman referenced the ideas of Benjamin Graham regarding value investing, highlighting the importance of purchasing assets at a significant discount. During the same podcast appearance, Ackman discussed receiving a copy of Christopher F. Rufo's America's Cultural Revolution from a friend, describing it as a sociological study of the origins of critical race theory and the DEI movement. Furthermore, on The Megyn Kelly Show, Ackman brought up Vivek Ramaswamy's Woke Inc., explaining how reading an early draft of the book gave him an early insight into corporate ideology before it became prominent on college campuses.
Books Bill Ackman recommended or discussed
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America's Cultural Revolution
Recommended“Then I had someone, a friend of mine sent me a Christopher Rufos book, "America's Cultural Revolution" which is sort of a sociological study of the origins of the DEI movement and critical race theory.”
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The intelligent investor
Recommended“The key is to buy at a price that represents a big discount to that approximation. That gets back to Ben Graham.”
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The Strange Death of Europe
Recommended“We had the opportunity to have dinner with him a couple of nights ago, and seven years ago he wrote a book about the death of Europe, basically, and this was his warning.”
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Woke, Inc.
Discussed“my first kind of uh Insight uh you know VC who was a friend of mine uh gave me a draft of his book woke Inc and uh and I read it and it really resonated with me”
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Appearances
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“There's a book I think it's called The Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway. That's for geeks. It basically this guy went back and read every 10-K whatever you actually went through the filings, looked at every deal that Buffett ever did, and you follow him over 60-year period of time.”