Lloyd Blankfein
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678 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Jun
Lloyd Blankfein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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At each work, you know, Goldman's a kind of firm.
that doesn't discourage people from bringing their kids into the business.
It was an old partnership, family firm.
It was a good thing to big.
So all my kids worked at least briefly at the firm, but it was too complicated.
It was complicated for them to work there.
Totally.
My name was Smith.
They could have hidden out.
But if your name is Blankfein, it was just too... And by the way, the burdens of being that were very heavy.
I can't tell you, I'm not in my kids' heads totally, so I can't tell you what they feel.
So I'll just say generically,
If you're the son of a very senior or the daughter of a very senior person in the organization, you have to worry that people think you didn't get your job by merit and they'll think, you know, you don't work hard and they'll think this.
So there's a lot of pressure on kids to come in earlier, stay later, show their moxie.
There's baggage that they have to overcome.
And so it would have been too oppressive for them to say.
No, I was very... It turns out I had a thick skin.
Look, if I didn't have a thick skin, I wouldn't have survived there and there.
I wouldn't have the joy of sitting opposite you now.
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