How Bill Ackman’s $14,000 Harvard job led him to Warren Buffett’s investing philosophy and eventually built his billion-dollar career

Bill Ackman’s path to becoming one of America’s best-known investors did not begin with a giant Wall Street deal. It started with a $14,000 college sales job at Harvard and a book recommendation that connected his career to legendary investor Warren Buffett.

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