Hedge fund titan Ray Dalio posted a selfie from Taylor Swift’s Elas tour in Singapore, leading to the controversial billionaire being slammed on social media. There, he enthusiastically supported the superstar as a presidential candidate.
“@taylorswift13 for president!” the 74-year-old Bridgewater Associates founder posted on X on Thursday.
“I just saw her at a concert in Singapore, and she realized that she could unite Americans and people in most countries far better than any of the candidates, and that bringing people together is the most important thing. ,” Dalio added.
Mr. Dalio’s posts were a far cry from the staid executive with the notoriously sharp management style for which he is known on Wall Street, and some on social media suggested he may have been enjoying Swift’s popular three-hour show a little too much. A question arose. .
“Who let Molly’s Ray slip?” asked user X TikTok Investors. Meanwhile, another person said: “I remember the first time I lit a fire in Singapore.”
Coinbase staffer Will Reynoir quipped. The selfie, which has been viewed more than 600,000 times in the three hours since it was posted, looks like “every parent using a smartphone for the first time.”
Representatives for Mr. Dalio at Bridgewater did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Dalio’s lengthy affirmation of Swift was accompanied by a super close-up selfie of himself at the pink-lit show, with the songstress strumming a guitar in the background.
Dalio continued with a heartfelt caption. “Watching this concert with people from all over the world made me and them feel good and connected. And it reminded me of how powerful that universal culture is.”
“Wouldn’t it be great to have two candidates who can lead that culture and make smart leadership decisions?” he said in another jab at Joe Biden.
“Are you okay?” Not yet. another user asked Accordingly, on the other hand another person chimed“Nii-san, you’re drunk, haha.”
“Brother, I just finished reading your book, this is not you” yet Another wrote about X, Dalio’s book “Principles” refers to a 600-page book on business management that preaches “radical truth” and “radical transparency.”
The book has reportedly sold well since it was first published in 2017, despite criticism of the author’s own management style.
Mr. Dalio’s conduct was exposed in an explosive biography titled “The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend,” released in November.
One particularly funny story about Dalio in The Fund is that Dalio once got angry in the men’s room at Bridgewater’s headquarters in Westport, Conn., because there was “pee on the floor.” It was an event that came to be known as the “Incident”.
The puddle escalates into a full-scale investigation led by none other than Dalio, who acts with his infamous “radical transparency” — first hedging for questioning about the puddle, according to the book. The investigation began by summoning the fund’s facility manager.
A member of staff was then assigned to guard the toilets, standing outside and noting who came in and how clean the floor was when they left, while a member of the cleaning crew was on hand to mop the floor. .
Dalio, whose net worth is listed by Forbes as $15.4 billion, shrugged off the biography as “fiction made out to be fact.”
