Ben Gilbert: evaluation

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…Yeah. 2008 and the financial crisis really is Vanguard and all of indexing and passives' finest moment. Yeah, I think that's, I think that's probably right. But should we do our last sponsor first? Yep. Let's do it. Well, listeners, one of the big takeaways from this whole story that we have been telling is that Jack Bogle had the data. He showed over and over again that active fund managers on average don't beat the market after fees. The data was right there. The industry ignored it for decades because conventional wisdom sort of "felt", felt in quotes, correct. Yep. And you know, that same dynamic plays out in product development every single day. Teams ship features based on conviction, momentum, or just the highest paid person's opinion. And most of the time, nobody, like, goes back to check whether it actually made the product better or worse. The feature ships, everyone moves on, and you never really close the loop.…

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