Two days before the pivotal battle for dominance in NVIDIA, a trillion-dollar company at the forefront of cutting-edge innovations in graphics processing and artificial intelligence (AI), Gerald Thompson sat in his luxurious suite in Santa Clara, California.
As one of the managing directors of The Vanguard Group, Inc., Gerald represented an investment behemoth with $10.1 trillion in assets under management. Vanguard, the largest company in the world by assets, operated as a colossus in nearly every industry.
Yet, for all its reach, it was merely a tool—a custodian for its clients: the European ultra-elites. These were ancient, unimaginably wealthy families, their fortunes built on the foundations of slavery, subjugation, and everyone's favourites the bloodied spoils of war.
