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At a trim six-three, Ackman takes pride in his fit appearance, which he attributes to avoiding sugar and alcohol. He\u2019s not shy about dispensing workout tips to his staff and discussing how many pull-ups he can do: \u201cI\u2019ll say 10,\u201d he notes, adding, \u201cI could do 100 if you give me enough time, though I\u2019d have to rest between sets.\u201d (If a pull-up bar had sprung up from the sidewalk, I have no doubt that he would have leaped upon it to make his point.)<\/p>\n

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If Ackman feels superhuman these days, it\u2019s understandable: He has just turned his investment firm, Pershing Square, into a public company and simultaneously launched a publicly traded investment fund in an unusual double NYSE listing. The move caps a Wall Street odyssey that began in the 2000s, when he first made a name for himself making bold bets as a short-seller and an activist investor.<\/p>\n

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His early wins included exposing vulnerabilities in the bond insurer MBIA and anticipating the rise of Chipotle\u2014contrarian investments that led Pershing in its first decade to outperform the S&P fivefold. He has also weathered dramatic stumbles, including a failed $1 billion short-selling campaign aimed at the supplement company Herbalife and a disastrous bet on Valeant Pharmaceuticals that cost Pershing $4 billion. Ackman\u2019s misfires, though, have been offset by some prescient investments in the face of black swan events like the subprime mortgage crisis and COVID, cementing his reputation as one of the shrewdest and most daring risk-takers on Wall Street.<\/p>\n

More recently, Ackman has flexed his influence across academic, cultural, and political realms, thanks in large part to his outsize X account, which boasts 2.5 million followers. Indeed, his rising profile as a pugnacious public commentator has arguably exceeded his influence on Wall Street. On X, Ackman banters with the likes of Elon Musk, and launches broadsides at targets such as the former president of his alma mater, Harvard University, whom he helped drive from her chair over the school\u2019s handling of Gaza war protests. He has also been one of the loudest critics of New York City\u2019s democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n

Ackman relishes financial and digital combat, but he also has an idealistic streak that separates him from some of the tech world billionaires. He is a longtime champion of an idea\u2014government-supported retirement accounts for all Americans\u2014that has gained traction with the Trump administration. He believes such accounts will make more people feel they are sharing in the country\u2019s broader prosperity, and rebuild fading faith in capitalism, which Ackman sees as integral to the American Dream.<\/p>\n

In business and in public life, Ackman comes across as a man riding an unstoppable winning streak. But fate recently delivered a painful personal reminder to this master of the universe who has so often bent the world to his will: There are some things that even a powerful billionaire can\u2019t control.<\/p>\n

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How a short-seller became a culture\u2011war combatant <\/h2>\n

Most people have hobbies or interests. Bill Ackman has obsessions. The business world learned this in 2002 during his remorseless short-selling campaign against MBIA, in which Ackman faced down a fierce political and media retaliation campaign and was ultimately vindicated in his claims about the firm\u2019s exposure to toxic mortgage-linked assets in its portfolio.<\/p>\n

Ackman has compared the structure of his NYSE-listed fund, Pershing Square USA, to his hero Warren Buffett\u2019s legendary Berkshire Hathaway empire, with its \u201cpermanent capital\u201d model. It\u2019s a typically bombastic comparison. The combined value of Pershing Square\u2014the firm and fund\u2014is some $16 billion on the NYSE, while Berkshire Hathaway is worth more than a trillion.<\/p>\n

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Ackman\u2019s style is not for everyone. The financier Carl Icahn, Ackman\u2019s longtime nemesis and business rival, famously denounced him as a self-righteous crybaby. More recently, former Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers\u2014himself hardly a favorite of the left\u2014called Ackman pressuring Harvard to publicly release the names of student protesters \u201cthe stuff of Joe McCarthy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The same relentlessness that built Ackman\u2019s reputation as a scourge of corporate excess\u2014and, to critics, a bully spoiling for a fight\u2014has increasingly spilled beyond balance sheets and boardrooms. Ackman has become more ideological, expanding his crusades into cultural and academic realms. What was once a highly focused, if combative, investment thesis has evolved into a campaign to defend the moral and economic logic that Ackman believes underpins American capitalism itself. In this year of the nation\u2019s 250th birthday, Ackman worries that the American tradition of celebrating hard-won material success is being displaced by a politics of disparagement and envy. Too many people, he argues, fail to understand that the American Dream is built upon free-market gumption.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen I grew up, if a guy in my neighborhood got a Corvette, no one resented the guy,\u201d he observes. \u201cEveryone was like, \u2018Wow, that\u2019s supercool. Hopefully, someday I can be as successful as that guy so I can buy a Corvette, too.\u2019 We want to get back to that version of America, where people admired people\u2019s success, as opposed to AOC basically saying, \u2018If you\u2019re a billionaire, you either committed fraud or you stole from people.\u2019 \u201d (New York\u2019s Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not respond to a request for comment about Ackman\u2019s remark.)<\/p>\n

The wealthy suburb of Chappaqua, N.Y., where Ackman grew up, probably had its share of Corvettes. Ackman describes his own home as comfortable but relatively modest, and recalls that he had to work for any spending money he had. His father, who worked in commercial real estate, made clear to Ackman from a young age that he would have to make his own way and not expect a penny of inheritance.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father always said to me, \u2018Bill, in life, you have to keep your antennae up,\u2019 \u201d he told the Wall Street Journal<\/em> last year. \u201c \u2018Opportunities present themselves. You\u2019ve got to take advantage of them.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Fostering opportunity\u2014to be leveraged with hard work\u2014is Ackman\u2019s foundational ethos, says Linda Rottenberg, a friend since Ackman\u2019s undergraduate days at Harvard and the cofounder and CEO of global entrepreneurial network Endeavor. \u201cHe\u2019s always been driven, but he was always equally determined to make the world a better place,\u201d she says. \u201cHe always has believed that the system should give everyone opportunity, and then you have to make your own way \u2026 He wants to try to give everyone opportunity, and to give everyone a shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Spreading the upside of Wall Street <\/h2>\n

Ackman acknowledges that a growing number of working Americans feel that the opportunity to succeed, or even just to live a comfortable life, no longer exists, that their paychecks can no longer buy a piece of the American Dream. This has resulted, he points out, in a situation where a surge in the stock market is cheered by the roughly 60% of Americans with a stake in it, while the remaining 40%, those without the means or know-how to invest, have nothing to celebrate.<\/p>\n

He recalls making this point to President Donald Trump at a gathering of leading Wall Street figures at the White House late last year, telling him: \u201cWe\u2019ve got a meaningful percentage of the country who, when the stock market goes up, they\u2019re not participating. If anything, they get resentful.\u201d<\/p>\n

The solution he proposes is to ensure that everyone has skin in the game and the opportunity to benefit from markets. In 2020, Ackman wrote an essay for the New York Times<\/em> calling for the U.S. government to create \u201cbirthright\u201d accounts in zero-cost equity index funds that would provide every American with $6,750\u2014an amount that, prohibited from withdrawal until retirement and compounded at a tax-free 8% annual return, would exceed $1 million by age 65.<\/p>\n

Ackman endorsed Trump in 2024 after years of supporting Democrats, and called him \u201cthe most pro-business president we\u2019ve ever had.\u201d And he found a receptive audience in the president for his thinking on government-supported retirement accounts. He and brokerage founder Charles Schwab campaigned for the expansion of a Biden-era program offering matching funds for IRA accounts as an incentive for lower-income workers to contribute\u2014a program that Trump rebranded as \u201cAmerican Dream Accounts\u201d for workers. \u201cThe president said, \u2018You know what, Bill? I love this idea,\u2019 \u201d Ackman recalls. \u201c \u2018Come see me in the White House, and let\u2019s get this done.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

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The administration also launched \u201cTrump Accounts\u201d for kids\u2014a program similar to Ackman\u2019s plan that provides $1,000 in seed funding to newborns.<\/p>\n

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It remains to be seen whether these accounts can meaningfully reduce the country\u2019s widening wealth chasm, or reduce disillusionment among the poor and working class. There\u2019s also the question of how many of those Americans would actually avail themselves of such benefits. To address that concern, Ackman argues that personal finance basics should be taught in schools: \u201cIt\u2019s critically important, in order to have a safe retirement, to learn how to invest at a young age,\u201d he says. \u201cYou have to start early in order to have a really good outcome.\u201d Ackman has tried to do his part for financial literacy, posting a YouTube video that promises to relate the essentials of finance and investing in under an hour. (It has 13 million views.)<\/p>\n

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But Ackman is convinced that simply having an investment portfolio of their very own, and watching wealth grow before their eyes, will shift many Americans\u2019 perspective. \u201cEveryone, in my view, needs to participate in capitalism,\u201d he declares. \u201cOtherwise, you\u2019re going to prefer socialism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walking up Seventh Avenue, I observe that he might not be the best emissary for financial inclusion given that, well, he\u2019s a 60-year-old white billionaire in a city that voted for a mayor who has vowed to tax the rich.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDon\u2019t say that so loud!\u201d interrupts Ackman, looking around at the crowded city street with a laugh\u2014seeming half-amused and half-serious.<\/p>\n

Betting on capitalism<\/h2>\n

As Ackman marches purposefully into Central Park, New York\u2019s crown jewel is noisy with the bustle of tourists, popcorn vendors, and horse-and-carriage drivers waiting for passengers. Its southern entrance is also marked by a newer feature: long shadows cast by the line of massive luxury towers erected in recent years that steal sunlight from the park\u2019s playgrounds and baseball fields. (Ackman himself owns a piece of trophy real estate on this so-called Billionaires\u2019 Row\u2014a 13,500-square-foot unit in the One57 skyscraper that he and a group of friends bought in 2015 as an investment property, for a headline-grabbing $91.5 million.)<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no denying that billionaires have shaped the area around Central Park in positive ways, too. The avenues running along the park\u2019s eastern and western edges are framed by museums, art galleries, and concert halls bequeathed by Carnegies, Morgans, and Fricks. Whether you consider them robber barons or industrial visionaries, these figures from America\u2019s Gilded Age left a tangible legacy that benefits millions to this day.<\/p>\n

Ben Soskis, a scholar at the Urban Institute, notes that the late 19th century saw the creation of mass concentrations of wealth in a few hands, and that figures from that era established American philanthropy as we know it\u2014focused on education, the arts, and scientific research.<\/p>\n

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Ackman, who cites the giving of Buffett and Andrew Carnegie as inspirations, follows this tradition, in his way. His Pershing Square Philanthropies (including the Pershing Square Foundation), describes its role as providing \u201crisk capital for philanthropy\u201d and reports more than $1 billion in grants and investments to date.<\/p>\n

Broadly, however, Ackman leans toward solutions to society\u2019s problems that tap into private industry and market forces. He envisions a future where there are incentives for companies, on the day they go public, to donate a small percentage of their shares to retirement accounts held by all Americans. \u201cLook, I think of philanthropy as the solution when there isn\u2019t a capitalistic for-profit solution to the problem,\u201d he explains. \u201cBut if there is a for-profit solution to the problem, it has a much higher probability of working if it\u2019s a capitalist model.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, Ackman suggests, profit-driven companies can often do more to improve lives than any charitable foundation. \u201cI think significance in life ultimately is measured by how positively you affect the largest number of people, and I think you can do that just being a capitalist,\u201d he says. \u201cJeff Bezos\u2014just by building Amazon\u2014think about the millions of people he\u2019s employed, the cost savings and convenience he\u2019s brought to hundreds of millions of people, the advances in technology, everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Ackman says, \u201cI want to be measured by my overall impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A different kind of battle<\/h2>\n

Ackman\u2019s quest for lasting impact has mostly played out on grand stages\u2014in markets, opinion pages, and the halls of power. But lately, his energy has been redirected toward something far more intimate: the fight to save his daughter.<\/p>\n

On a quiet, tree-lined side path in Central Park, a different Ackman emerges. He tells a story that has not been reported in the media to date: of the terrible day in February when his family discovered his 26-year-old daughter, Lucy, lying on the floor of her apartment 15 hours after suffering a brain hemorrhage. A person who has experienced many hours of brain compression, as Lucy did, is usually beyond treatment. Miraculously, she regained consciousness after a month. She has lost her voice\u2014an especially painful situation for a writer of TV dialogue\u2014and most of her sight. But she is improving.<\/p>\n

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Ackman was preparing for Pershing Square\u2019s double IPO during the crisis and its aftermath, and took business calls from the room next to Lucy\u2019s, with breaks in between to avoid leaving her bedside for long. Now, in Central Park, Ackman chokes up as he shows a video of the brave young woman clutching a black dog. In this moment, it\u2019s easy to forget that Ackman is a billionaire; he is simply a parent watching his child struggle.<\/p>\n

A beat later, Ackman is back in action mode, talking about the brain institute he plans to build in partnership with Mount Sinai Hospital, where Lucy is being treated. He has purchased a 400,000-square-foot property on Manhattan\u2019s West Side, with additional development rights. The discussion of his plans seems to reinvigorate him.<\/p>\n

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Back in the cacophony of Fifth Avenue, he reverts to the parry-and-thrust style he likes to use with reporters. \u201cWhat else have ya got?\u201d he asks. We return to some of his favored bugbears: The New York Times<\/em>. (\u201cI read it last,\u201d he grumbles.) Harvard University. (\u201cI want to see Harvard succeed,\u201d he says. \u201c[But] I think they\u2019re waiting out the Trump administration.\u201d)<\/p>\n

By the time we reach the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it\u2019s clear Ackman is eager to get to his destination: Mount Sinai, to see Lucy, confer with her doctors, and talk about plans for the brain institute.<\/p>\n

This is his new venture and obsession, and his approach is classic Ackman, says Mary Erdoes, CEO of JPMorgan\u2019s Asset and Wealth Management unit, who has worked with him for years: \u201cHe\u2019s going to go big,\u201d she says. \u201cHis philanthropy has the same passion to it as every company, idea, or anything else\u2014and he is all in.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This article appears in the August\/September issue of <\/em> Fortune<\/p>\n

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