David Solomon

Well, I'm trying not to be in the media industry.

I'm glad I wrote the op-ed.

By the way, not my title, the New York Times title.

But I'm glad I wrote the op-ed.

Why did you write it?

Well, I wrote the op-ed.

I haven't written a lot of op-eds.

I think in my eight years, I've written two.

And the last one was back in 2019 before COVID.

And it was around energy, where I was trying to talk about the fact that I thought there was going to be real change in the context of

the energy supply chain.

And it was very important that we made investments in things that were greener and we moved in that direction.

But I also stated at the time

and took a little heat for this very emphatically that oil and gas was going to be a significant part of the energy supply chain for decades to come.

Good call.

Goldman Sachs would be financing fossil fuel companies for a long, long time.

And looking at the lens now, I think that it is very important that we have a thoughtful and detailed discussion about the change that's going on.

And let's just start, if you don't mind, if I can step back.

I am hugely, hugely optimistic.

about this technology and the impact that this technology can have on large scale enterprises like Goldman Sachs and the productivity gains that it can create, which I do believe can increase economic growth, create more prosperity and more impact on our economic system broadly in a very, very positive way.