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Dan Loeb Admits He Was Original Troll on Early Internet Stock Boards
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Dan Loeb: The Lost Art of Short Selling, and Why Stock Picking is Back
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"Some people use the term OG. Sometimes I say I was the OT. The original troll. Yeah, no, I did. I mean, it was fun. I didn't know I was one day going to run institutional money and have a big fund. And, you know, I was just having fun and blowing off steam."
Third Point CEO Dan Loeb openly admitted he was 'the original troll' on early internet stock chat boards like Yahoo and Silicon Investor in the 1990s, taunting management teams of companies he was shorting. He revealed he engaged in anonymous trolling without anticipating he would later manage $30 billion in institutional capital, describing the Wild West environment where people could say or do anything.
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