Gary Gensler
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first heard Aug 2026
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To me, history helps inform thinking about the present and mostly what it means about the future.
I've been blessed by working with people of very high caliber professionalism.
The Goldman Sachs Merger Department in its day was like the green beret of MA bankers working on various campaigns and political efforts, even when we lost, but working with really talented people.
And now, my God, the finance group and my co-podcaster, Simon Johnson.
And just won the Nobel Prize in Economics two years ago.
The similarity, very high level of professionalism and gray matter.
There's real differences, though, with Goldman Sachs.
I learned about trying to discern value.
What's the value proposition of a company?
How do you sell it?
Helped me in politics also.
What was the value in any transactional situation, but also broader strategy?
second thing I learned at Goldman Sachs that has helped me throughout is negotiating skills.
They were amongst the best skillful, courteous negotiators.
I took that into the political world.
I worked on a lot of legislative initiatives with Paul Sorbanes, that thing called Sorbanes Oxley.
I find my colleagues in MIT are really collaborative.
They're always curious if I reach out to them and say, hey, could I
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In academia, though, it's not the same level of teamwork that I learned at Goldman Sachs.
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