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: “May I meet you?”

He posted the line as earnest advice for young men who, in his view, now avoid spontaneous interactions because dating apps dominate their social lives.

“Online culture destroyed the ability to meet strangers,” he wrote on X, in a post that has now been viewed over 26 million times. Ackman, who runs a hedge-fund and is a prol

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