Bill Ackman’s investment career can be traced back to a surprisingly modest beginning: a college sales job that earned him $14,000. While studying at Harvard, Ackman sold advertising for the student-produced Let’s Go travel guides on commission, discovering that he had a knack for turning sales into serious money. The experience offered an early glimpse of the commercial world, but his direction changed after graduation, when he joined his father’s New York real estate business. Ackman found the entrepreneurs and developers involved in deals more interesting than the property work itself.
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