Carl Icahn: The Queens boy who made $21 billion - VisualPolitik EN

For years, he was the investor most feared by Wall Street executives. A tough guy, with a strong, inflexible character and a good nose for business. Over time, and thanks to these attributes, Carl Icahn has become one of the most important investors in history.

According to Forbes, at the time of preparing this video, his net worth surpassed the incredible figure of $14 billion.

But now, who is Carl Icahn really? How did he get into the world of markets? How did he make his fortune? What investment style does this already legendary investor use?

For this new video in the series that we are producing in conjunction with Value School, we'll tell you.

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[Quickonomics]

Undervalued companies: *exist*

Carl Icahn: "That's a nice company... would be a shame if someone... stripped it for parts."

[theshadowman]

The guy with a famous phrase: if you want a friend get a dog.

[randomstuff]

He is a very petty man. He invested in HerbalLife, just to spite Ackman. That being said, there is place for people like Icahn and he can be useful in some cases.

[skyvenrazgriz]

No morale, no problem

That guy is realy living in a world full of meaningless NPCs

[shakiMiki]

Graduated from Princeton. How all inspiring rags to riches stories begin..

[joshuajoe]

I still won’t forgive him for ruining TWA Airways!

[libertarianPinoy]

Interesting man, but not a man to be celebrated.

I'm glad at the very least he was born in a free market society. Could you imagine if he became a politician in an authoritarian society? *shudder*

[hadtrio]

you should change the name of the channel visualeconomics cause the economic subject is more than the political one

[hanzz]

(Ichan knocks on ur door)..."oh no...."

[tubewoodycool]

8:54 Electrolux is Swedish not Belgian.

[infiltrr]

8:54 Electrolux is Swedish, not Belgian.

[containedhurricane]

Make a video about the American billionaire mathematician

[gorankovacevic]

The guy who Bill Ackman! 😂 Probably his biggest accomplishment.

[SerenityMLSAMLN]

So he mainly speculated on the stock market and tried to inflate stock prices, buy low, sell high, and reap the profits without innovating or physically working to create goods and capital?

Has he signed Bill Gates pledge to donate his wealth?

[reallydutch]

This channel has changed into visualeconomic. :/

[rhythmandacoustics]

"activist investors", yeah supporting MLM like Herbalife

[carlosclavijo]

Why isn't this video in the Visual Politik original channel? Someone knows if there's another video that is only in this channel?

[dannypowers]

Most of the time Carl is working for the small shareholder who has no say in how the company is operated. CEOs who are poor managers of stockholders money sometime have to be removed and people like Carl get the job done.

[tanveeralam]

Downside of watching a video too early is that there are not many analysis in comments

[hitmanbro]

Slowly I can see the quality is going down 🔻