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The Trillion Dollar VOO for $100
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- Jun 19, 2026
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Summary
The Trillion Dollar VOO for $100 What if $100 could buy you a seat at the same table as the world's largest investment fund? It can. And it just did. In this episode of Trail Boss Radio, Dan breaks down VOO — the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF — the first exchange-traded fund in history to cross $1 trillion in assets under management. Not $1 billion. Not $100 billion. One trillion dollars. And on June 18, 2026, at a FedEx office counter in Fort Worth, Texas, a 65-year-old logistics veteran and Elite Lyft driver bought 0.14513 shares of it for $100. This is Episode 4 of The $100 Experiment — the live, week-by-week investment series where Trail Boss Dan Johnson invests $100 every week into a rotating ETF portfolio on Robinhood and documents every decision, every hesitation, and every lesson in public. In this episode:Robinhood Link — What VOO actually is: not one company, but 500 of America's largest — Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Nvidia — all in one $100 purchase — Why the 0.03% expense ratio is one of the most important numbers in personal finance (Vanguard charges you 30 cents per year per $1,000 invested) — What a 10-year average annual return of 20%+ actually means for a weekly $100 discipline habit — Why DRIP (Dividend Reinvestment) turned ON means your shares grow automatically every quarter without you lifting a finger — What dollar-cost averaging really means — and why buying at a FedEx counter on a random Thursday is smarter than waiting for the "perfect" entry point — Why VOO is the baseline that every other position in The $100 Experiment will be measured against — What a geopolitical peace deal had to do with the market being near record highs the day Dan clicked Buy VOO is not exciting. It is not a hot tip. It is not a get-rich-quick play. It is the bedrock…