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Dan Loeb · All-In Podcast
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The early internet chat boards were the Wild West where people could say anything, but there was a lot of substance too — it's not that different from today.
Loeb describes his early days on pre-Reddit chat boards, calling them the Wild West where substantive investing ideas mixed with anything-goes trolling, and notes the continuity with today's online investing culture. ✦ AI generated
Dan Loeb · All-In Podcast · 2026-06-05 · original ↗
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“Before Twitter... you were actually quite active, but they were in very different places. I mean, you were in Wall Street Bets before Wall Street Bets existed. Can you just walk us through your evolution as a public persona?”
I was the original troll. Yeah, no, I did. I mean, it was fun. You know, 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. And yeah, it was fun. I mean, investing is fun. And particularly on the short side, I mean, there's so much humor in it when you detect these companies, especially in the 90s. I mean, it was really unsupervised. There were some incredibly fraudulent companies out there, and it was just fun to uncover them and kind of taunt the management teams and ultimately prevail.
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