Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman offered his “two cents” to young men looking to meet singles over the weekend — and social media users overwhelmingly cringed at his dating advice.
Ackman, in a post to X on Saturday, claimed that “online culture has destroyed the ability to spontaneously meet strangers” before sharing a pickup line he claimed to use on people he found “compelling” in his youth.
“I would ask: ‘May I meet you?’ before engaging further in a conversation. I almost never got a No,” claimed the Trump-backing billionaire, who married Neri Oxman in 2019 after his divorce with his first wife of 24 years, Karen Herskovitz.
“It inevitably enabled the opportunity for a further conversation. I met a lot of really interesting people this way. I think the combination of proper grammar and politeness was the key to its effectiveness. You might give it a try.”
He later added that the line should work on women seeking men and “same sex interactions.”
A number of users on the platform tested out Ackman’s line in public while other critics mocked it, with one user calling it “some crazy unc advice” and another flat out declaring that it’s “not gonna work.”