David Solomon
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35 recordings
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 8 Jul
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But I think every five years, we can directionally say, is it more productive?
Yes, it is.
Because you go back.
When the firm went public, the firm had $6 billion of capital, I believe.
And we had 16,000 people, something like that, order of magnitude.
Today, we have 45,000 people and $110 billion of capital.
The firm is much more productive against producing reasonable returns on that capital than it was 27 years ago.
I mean, that's clear.
But that's a 27-year look, not a year-to-year-to-year look.
Well, it's an insightful question.
And I start with the fact that one of the things I'm really proud of about Goldman Sachs is Goldman Sachs is less what you described, I believe, than any other firm.
I think that we really have, for a long time, it's been part of the culture, but we really have a culture of sharing and collaboration.
It is not a star system.
People share, share, share.
It's just such an ethos at Goldman Sachs that I think we have less of this problem than other organizations have.
But what's interesting to me about your question
and it makes me really think about it, is it's something that I deeply believe that you started with, and I'd frame it in three buckets.
This technology is incredibly powerful when you have a clean data set.
Put these models against a clean data set.
It is extraordinary.
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