US EditionBillionaire Bill Ackman Mocked For Dating Advice: Here’s What He Said
Bill Ackman’s polite dating line “May I meet you?” sparked over 27 million views and thousands of memes, highlighting generational challenges in meeting new people.
- On November 15, 2025, Bill Ackman, billionaire hedge-fund manager, posted on X the four-word line `May I meet you?`, which he said he used in his youth; the post has been viewed more than 27 million times.
- Ackman said he often hears young men find it difficult to meet young women in public settings and blamed `online culture` for eroding spontaneous encounters, adding he is an older, happily married man concerned about the next generation.
- Across social media, memes showed Shane Gillis, comedian, President Joe Biden and a fake photo of Vice President J.D. Vance, with scenes in New York City and Stanford, California.
- Jess Carbino, former sociologist for Tinder and Bumble, said the phrasing reads like networking and tapped into loneliness and a desire for polite guardrails in a post-#MeToo context, while Ackman defended its formality as key to success.
- Ackman's profile as a longtime Trump ally and elite MAGA donor class member, with a Forbes valuation of $9.3 billion, fueled criticism linking his confidence to his wealth and height, while Pershing Square declined to comment.
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One billionaire hedge fund manager’s dating advice has prompted mockery on social media. Bill Ackman likely sought to encourage younger people to approach dating in a sophisticated way, as people grow more and more anxious about social interactions and romantic relationships. But his good-natured advice was not well-received by people on X. Look: I hear from many young men that they find it difficult to meet young women in a public setting. In …
Bill Ackman's 'May I meet you?' line for talking to women goes viral, quickly gets the meme treatment
Bill Ackman's advice to young men now has roughly 4,200 comments on X.PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty ImagesBill Ackman wrote on X that his go-to line for talking to women used to be, "May I meet you?"Memes and reactions to the advice soon followed.Some social media users found the advice helpful or said that it helped encourage men to meet women offline.Trying to strike up a conversation with a woman in the real world? Bill Ackman has some advi…
Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman just dropped a four-word dating tip — and the internet is going crazy over it
Somewhere in Stanford, California, an undergrad is telling his roommates that he landed a Friday night date because he tried a billionaire’s pickup line. A man on the New York subway is yelling out that same line to strangers. A woman is planning to stand in Washington Square Park wearing a cardboard sign bearing the phrase. These are just a few scenes from the weekend frenzy in New York City around Bill Ackman’s four-word piece of dating advice…
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