David Solomon
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I mean, there's a wide, wide range of jobs.
All the experiences are different.
All the opportunity sets are different.
When I was talking to you about out with clients, I was talking about the people that are in the client facing roles.
And one of the things I truly believe in, look, I see this.
I sat with a group of
venture-backed founders at dinner in my apartment the other night, the average age was like 28.
So impressive, so smart.
By the way, the people who are hiring at Goldman Sachs are so impressive, so smart.
They're peers with these people that are going and starting businesses.
They can't go out and talk to clients and have an impact.
With the technology, it makes it more leveraging.
And I think you guys saw, because I've used this example of when I started doing a common stock comparison, took six hours, go microfiche, Wall Street Journal, the only source of historical stock prices, put it on graph paper, take a picture of it.
If you really think about that example, what that example is actually saying is,
If you were a company and you wanted to know where your stock was trading during the day, you had two choices.
You could call, or three choices, I guess, technically.
You could call your investment banker and say, hey, where's my stock trading right now?
And the fact that we had a Quotron in our office, okay, we could tell them.
They didn't know.
They didn't have a Quotron.