Vanguard

6 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Feb 8, 2016 by Gil Penchina · said 22 times in 14 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Everything said about Vanguard, oldest first

Feb 8, 2016 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Gil Penchina: Flight.vc aims to become a mainstream consumer retirement platform
“My dream is that we'd be buying a 32nd ad on your show talking about our family of funds, and, you know, we'd have, you know, ads in a magazine just like Fidelity and Vanguard do, and we would become one of those places where consumers invest to, help them, he…”
Gil Penchina Feb 8, 2016 ▶ 15:09 20VC: Gil Penchina on Building The World's Largest AngelList Syndicate with Flight.vc
Oct 17, 2016 positive
Insight
Lindzon: Angel investing boom driven by passive market flows, not bubble
“This whole angel investing phenomenon is partly due to this Vanguard S&P 500 and the way the public markets are working. So people that call this a bubble I don't really understand the full scope of money and money flows and the whole ecosystem of investing, b…”
Howard Lindzon Oct 17, 2016 ▶ 5:05 20VC: Investing Lessons From Fred Wilson & Brad Feld and Why Fundraising Is An Art & Not Everyone Can Be An Artist with Howard Lindzon Founder @ Stocktwits & Managing Partner @ Social Leverage
Oct 17, 2016 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lindzon: Passive index investing will trigger massive corporate fallout
“And so it's destroying creativity and it's also you're going to start to see some massive fallout i can't predict when but you're starting to see cracks companies misbehaving again because you know it's okay for wells Wells Fargo as part of the S&P 500 to misb…”
Howard Lindzon Oct 17, 2016 ▶ 4:08 20VC: Investing Lessons From Fred Wilson & Brad Feld and Why Fundraising Is An Art & Not Everyone Can Be An Artist with Howard Lindzon Founder @ Stocktwits & Managing Partner @ Social Leverage
Oct 11, 2023 neutral
Insight
Deven Parekh: Large mutual funds use pre-IPO rounds to build long-term positions
“And when these, once there's so little inventory and the amount they're selling is so small and the size of a Fidelity or Vanguard or Wellington fund is so big, their ability to buy a position in the public market is actually not that they can't get much alloc…”
Deven Parekh Oct 11, 2023 ▶ 37:24 Roundtable #4 with Jason Lemkin, Woody Marshall, Deven Parekh, Harry Stebbings | E1071 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 24, 2025 negative
Opinion
O'Driscoll: Yale's Asset Sale Equates to Vanguard Endorsing Active Management
“Intellectually, as I said, this would be like if Vanguard said, you know, we've been thinking active management is the way to go.”
Rory O'Driscoll Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 40:27 How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 10, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Lemkin: Retail investors should not have exposure to private assets
“To Terry's point, if Vanguard has 10 trillion, putting 10% of that into venture would move the needle, but I just don't think ordinary investors should be doing this stuff. I don't know. There's just I just, I, it's just part of greed. Too much greed.”
Jason Lemkin Jul 10, 2025 ▶ 46:59 Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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