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Published · transcript-backedBill Ackman: belief
20 Feb 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #413 – Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech
“If you look at businesses like a McDonald’s, it’s… Whatever, the company’s like an 1950 vintage business and here we are, 75 years later, and you can kind of predict what it’s going to look like over time. And the menu’s going to adjust over time to consumer tastes but I think the hamburger and fries is probably forever.”
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- Bill Ackman
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- belief
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- 20 Feb 2024
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…Exactly, exactly. All right. That’s sort of one example. Another example could be just the restaurant industry. If you look at businesses like a McDonald’s, it’s… Whatever, the company’s like an 1950 vintage business and here we are, 75 years later, and you can kind of predict what it’s going to look like over time. And the menu’s going to adjust over time to consumer tastes but I think the hamburger and fries is probably forever. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the hamburger and fries are forever. I was eating at Chipotle last night as I was preparing these notes-…
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