Bill Ackman is a traditional-finance activist investor who founded Pershing Square Capital Management and serves as its CEO. Bill Ackman's Twitter Score is 561 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #231 (top 0.1%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Bill Ackman also co-founded Gotham Partners and founded the Pershing Square Foundation, where he serves as Co-trustee. His public engagement with crypto has been limited but notable: in March 2024, he outlined a potential Bitcoin feedback loop, connecting rising BTC prices to higher mining and energy use, inflation, and dollar weakness, and concluded by suggesting he might buy bitcoin. In January 2024, he publicly stated that Sam Bankman-Fried was "telling the truth," a position that drew significant attention across financial and crypto circles.
Bill Ackman has accumulated 2,869,420 followers as of August 2026 and has published 18,533 posts on the platform. He has been mentioned by 779 accounts, with 2,054 total mentions.
As an angel investor, Bill Ackman has backed Taxbit, Goldfinch, Supernode Ventures, Strive Asset Management and Strive.
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The accounts that follow Bill Ackman include 2,609 founders, 686 angel investors, 852 influencers and 38 VCs. Among his notable followers are Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Sam Altman, Erik Voorhees, Nikita Bier and Balaji.