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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were really encouraged to go make their way.
And so I was working at Irving Trust.
And this was a time when almost everybody in finance went to business school.
I was applying to business school in 1985.
And I got a job offer to work in the junk bond business at Drexel Burnham.
And I decided to take it because it appeared lucrative and my dad gave- Jump bonds were like the only thing taking off basically in finance in the early 80s, right?
It was definitely an area of finance that was accelerating and it was very entrepreneurial.
And I said to my dad, this is taking a risk because everybody else is going to business school.
And my dad said, go try it for two years.
If it doesn't work, you go to business school in two years.
I mean, it was really, it was a pretty- Good advice.
It was a pretty simple piece of advice.
But I went to Drexel Burnham.
It was very entrepreneurial.
And the culture, there were good things and bad things about the culture at Drexel.
And some of the bad things are the reason why in 1990, on February 14th, 1990, Drexel Burnham went out of business, as many other Wall Street firms have in the history of Wall Street.
But for the four and a half years that I was there, basically, I was told, go find a way to build relationships and make money.
Go find a way to build, you know, I was 24 years old.
Go bring business into the firm.
We sat at a desk.
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