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Hamburger Business Review PodcastBurger Hedging: Are The Parts Greater Than The Whole?Beware the beautiful eyes of Bill Ackman, the CEO and founder of Pershing Square Capital Management. When he gets a crush on a business it usually means he has some bold new plan to make drastic changes in order to achieve drastic profits.In 2015 the gaze of Ackman was on Wendy’s, which he pressured into selling off the profitable Tim Horton’s chain. Ackman sold his shares at a substantial profit, and then stock price later collapsed.When he later took on McDonald’s the process wasn’t quite as smooth. Was his idea flawed o...
2023-05-3030 min
Village Global PodcastThe World’s First Publicly Traded Person with Mike Merrill and Marcus EstesOn this episode of Venture Stories, Erik is joined by Mike Merrill (@kmikeym), the world’s first and only publicly traded person, along with Mike’s friend, co-founder and shareholder, Marcus Estes (@marcusestes), co-founder and CEO of Chroma.We hear the backstory on how Mike became the world’s first “publicly traded person” and hear a funny story about an early 2000s arts group turned their group into a corporation in order to thwart an attempt by an e-commerce company to take over their domain name.They run through the ins and outs of what life is like fo...
2018-11-1951 min