David Solomon
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1,572 appearances
35 recordings
8 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 8 Jul
David Solomon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
Or you could call your stockbroker if you had one or go outside your office and find a Merrill Lynch or an EF Hutton or a Dean Witter office on the street and look at the ticker tape and wait until your stock would buy on the ticker tape.
Or you could wait until the next day and open up the Wall Street Journal and see where your stock traded that day.
So we were offering a huge value service by simply having this technological machine that allowed us to tell them where their stock was trading.
So if you think about what young people were doing when I started, a lot of what we were doing was taking very primitive technology and giving information to people that were trying to run their businesses.
And the pace of everything was very, very slow.
We've now, over 40 some years, accelerated that enormously.
And so the productivity level of all these people is going up, up, and up, and up.
We haven't had fewer people.
Now, maybe this technology is accelerating in a way where over time we will actually fundamentally have fewer people.
But what I would argue...
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