Bogle, Buffett, and the Methods Behind the Fool's 55,000 Points of Alpha

This episode of the Rule Breaker Investing podcast comes on an interesting day for Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner: his 51st birthday. It's an auspicious moment to look back at the outperformance the Fool has offered to customers and investors who followed the company.

With that as his overarching theme, he discusses a pair of investment greats and how they have shaped the Fool's style. One, who developed what David calls the most disruptive technology to hit the investment world ever -- the index fund -- is Jack Bogle. And the other, whose brilliance in buying boring, underappreciated businesses and turning them into long-term cash-generating machines, is Warren Buffett. Which did the Gardner brothers follow? Neither: Their framework was shaped, in large part, by the market territory that those two men's philosophies left unexploited.

A full transcript follows the video.

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