David Solomon
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And he said, why don't you come and do an internship for the summer?
And I said, what would you do?
And he said, you'd call on clients.
I really had no idea what he was talking about.
So I show up at this Merrill Lynch office and
They plop me down and they give me a zip code list.
Okay.
Basically, and it was the zip code was 10028 and 10128.
Basically, the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
This is 1981.
Okay.
They give me a zip code list and they say, make 100 phone calls a day and ask people if they're interested in talking to a Merrill Lynch broker.
And during the course of the summer, okay, for eight weeks, I made 100 phone calls a day.
I got five people to talk to a Merrill Lynch broker.
And we went and had one meeting and opened one account.
Oh, my God.
Okay.
It was brutal.
And after the first week, I said to my dad, I was like, I don't know that I can do this for the whole summer.
And he said, yes, you can.