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Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio) · Acquired May 18, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:57:16 David Rosenthal He wants to be back in the saddle, and the way this manifests is he, at the board level, starts kind of becoming a curmudgeon and disagrees with all the new initiatives, all the new things that Brennan and the new management team want to…
  • ▶ 1:58:48 David Rosenthal It's not like Brennan and the new management want to all of a sudden start generating tons of excess profits or take Vanguard public or, you know, do anything crazy like that.
  • ▶ 1:59:21 Ben Gilbert I mean, you need some kind of way of dealing with this, and Jack Brennan, this sort of falls in his lap
  • ▶ 1:59:59 Ben Gilbert So that's the sort of things that fall in Brennan's lap that he has to do to take the company forward.
  • ▶ 2:07:40 David Rosenthal Brennan and the management team say, we, we gotta launch ETFs.
  • ▶ 2:11:59 David Rosenthal And he does eventually repair his relationships with management of the company, especially after Brennan steps down in 2008 and the next CEO, Bill McNabb, succeeds him.
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