RWH030: From Poverty To Power w/ Arnold Van Den Berg
The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network
Stig Brodersen
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🗓️ 23 July 2023
⏱️ 156 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. |
| 0:03.0 | Hi there, my guest today is Arnold Vandenberg, who's one of the most inspiring and extraordinary |
| 0:08.0 | investors I've ever met. |
| 0:10.0 | As some of you may remember, when I was trying to decide who to write about it at the very |
| 0:13.8 | end of my book, Rich Elkweiser, Happier, I decided that I really had to close the book |
| 0:18.4 | by telling Arnold's story. |
| 0:20.5 | And here's what I wrote about him when I introduced him in the epilogue of the book. |
| 0:25.6 | When I think about what constitutes a successful and abundant life, the investor who embodies |
| 0:30.4 | it best for me is Arnold Vandenberg. |
| 0:32.5 | He's not a billionaire or a genius, he doesn't own a yacht or a plane, yet there's nobody |
| 0:37.6 | in the investment world whom I admire more. |
| 0:40.9 | If I had to choose just one role model from all of the remarkable investors I've interviewed |
| 0:45.8 | over the last quarter of a century, it would be him. |
| 0:49.0 | He was dealt a terrible hand, but is defied overwhelming odds to achieve a life of prosperity |
| 0:54.8 | that goes far beyond money. |
| 0:57.1 | As I explained in the book, Arnold's life really got off to a catastrophically awful start. |
| 1:02.4 | He was born into a Jewish family in Amsterdam in 1939, a year before the Nazis invaded |
| 1:09.4 | the Netherlands, and Arnold spent the first couple of years of his life in hiding actually |
| 1:14.2 | on the same street where Anne Frank lived. |
| 1:17.0 | And then he was hidden in an orphanage where he survived, but more or less starved during |
| 1:22.2 | a period when his parents were sent to Auschwitz. |
| 1:25.5 | Amazingly, both of his parents survived the concentration camps, but 39 members of Arnold's |
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