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by hsod 875 days ago
Just for context Ackman’s 1.1B purchase would be worth about 2.25B today if he hadn’t sold it for 700M

Of course that doesn’t mean it was a dumb trade but his rationale in the letter doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. It has the vibe of something you would come up with if you needed to sound smart justifying a decision you had already made emotionally