{"id":1012435,"date":"2026-06-05T09:02:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012435"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:56:25","slug":"bill-ackman-once-made-10000-on-a-bankrupt-firm-heres-why-he-believes-ai-could-repeat-the-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/05\/bill-ackman-once-made-10000-on-a-bankrupt-firm-heres-why-he-believes-ai-could-repeat-the-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Ackman once made 10,000% on a bankrupt firm \u2014Here\u2019s why he believes AI could repeat the pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Ackman has a habit of making money where everyone else sees ruin. In 2008, as Wall Street wrote off General Growth Properties (then the second-largest mall operator in America), he bought roughly a third of the company for around $60 million.  <\/p>\n<p>Years later, that decision turned into one of the biggest wins in modern investing. Today, he says the same kind of thinking may still apply, just in a very different market. The conversation popped up during the All-In podcast with Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Ackman has a habit of making money where everyone else sees ruin. In 2008, as Wall Street wrote off General Growth Properties (then the second-largest mall operator in America), he bought roughly a third of the company for around $60 million. Years later, that decision turned into one of the biggest wins in modern investing. Today, he says the same kind of thinking may still apply, just in a very different market. The conversation popped up during the All-In podcast with Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012457,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012435\/revisions\/1012457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}