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Activist hedge fund managed by Bill Ackman investing in concentrated public equity positions.pershingsquareholdings.com

1 take · first discussed Aug 2, 2024

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Who's weighed in
Chamath
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First discussed
Aug 2, 2024

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The discussion

The single view represented here comes from Chamath, who holds a neutral, medium-conviction stance on Pershing Square Capital Management's failed IPO attempt. He argues the core problem is structural rather than personal: hedge fund and GP businesses inherently lack the durable, predictable revenue streams that public market investors require to justify a long-term equity valuation. In his view, this makes taking such entities public nearly impossible, and he cites Pershing Square as yet another illustration of a broader pattern where little to no sustainable equity value exists in GP-style businesses. No other hosts' views are provided for comparison.

How they got there

ChamathChamath1 take since Aug 2, 2024
NeutralE190Aug 2, 2024

Chamath argues the Pershing Square IPO failed not because of Ackman's character or Twitter activity, but because hedge fund / GP businesses structurally lack the durable, predictable revenue streams that public investors need to underwrite long-term equity value, making it nearly impossible to take such entities public.

In finance, these entities that try to sell a piece of the quote-unquote general partner as a company, I just think that it's, um, frankly, that it doesn't work. And this is just, you know, an example, yet another example that there's not1:12:24
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