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Bill Ackman: belief

20 Feb 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #413 – Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

“I would say at a certain point in time, she lost the confidence of the faculty, and that was ultimately the catalyst.”

— Bill Ackman

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Speaker
Bill Ackman
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belief
Recorded
20 Feb 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…So as you said, technically Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard resigned over plagiarism, not over the thing that you were initially troubled by. It’s hard to really know, right? It’s not like a provable fact. I would say at a certain point in time, she lost the confidence of the faculty, and that was ultimately the catalyst. How much of that was the plagiarism issue, and how much of that was some of the things that preceded it, or was it all of these issues in their entirety? There’s no way to do a calculus. Can you explain the nature of this plagiarism from what you remember?…

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