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206: Dan David – The Investigative Research of an Activist Short Seller

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How to Be a Successful Short Seller

On a case by case basis, I certainly don't do it like Bill Ackman. There's quite a bit of hubris involved in that show. Here's a guy that was completely right about Herbalife and could not have fucked it up in any bigger way. Carl Icahn was holding a grudge ten years ago. And I think Icahn was like, do I care if I die with $14 billion or $12 billion and sticking up Ackman's ass? That's exactly what happened. For me, yeah, I was in Hong Kong. I wasn't in China. So there you go.

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