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David Rosenthal: belief

27 Jun 2023 Acquired Porsche (with Doug DeMuro)

“I think he enters working within Audi, but then very quickly becomes the head of the Audi brand for Volkswagen.”

— David Rosenthal

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

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…Which is obviously what's happening here. I think he also was very talented. He designed the 911, for God's sake. He's talented, but yes, trading on the name here. The other Ferdinand, Piech, this guy, oh, my God, he is a G. At first, I imagine inspired by his grandfather, he's like, I'm going to go start my own engineering consulting company and consult for other car companies. He does do that for a little bit. But pretty quickly, thereafter, remember, VW and the new CEO really wanted to build this relationship with Porsche, with Piech. He gets recruited to come in and take over Audi for VW. I think he enters working within Audi, but then very quickly becomes the head of the Audi brand for Volkswagen. Doug, at this point in history, what does the Volkswagen Group own brand-wise?…

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