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David Rosenthal: belief

27 Jun 2023 Acquired Porsche (with Doug DeMuro)

“I think the best I could figure out is that Piech was not happy with the then current CEO of Volkswagen, and was looking for a way to get his first successor out.”

— David Rosenthal

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Speaker
David Rosenthal
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
27 Jun 2023
Publisher
Acquired

Transcript context

…He's got Ferdinand Piech signing off on this. Right. Why would Piech go along with this? I think the best I could figure out is that Piech was not happy with the then current CEO of Volkswagen, and was looking for a way to get his first successor out. Clearly, he was trying to recruit Wiedeking too. He was benefiting from this, too. He was going to have his cake and eat it, too. Head I win, tails you lose.…

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