Lloyd Blankfein

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678 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 16 Jun

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My First Million · How the Ex-Goldman CEO actually invests his own money · 16 Jun 2026 podcast

I'm not a bad investor.

I can read balance sheet and plans and, you know, proposals.

And I have opinions on the future.

A lot of times I'm right, but I didn't, again, I didn't climb the ranks because specifically I was an investor.

Goldman Sachs has great investors and great salesmen and great traders and great bankers and this.

And, you know, fortunately I didn't have to be the greatest at any one of those things.

I was a pretty good manager and I was a pretty good strategist for the business.

And I was a good partner to other people.

And that was what was required of my job.

Just look, maybe once upon a time, the captain of the ship got to be captain because he could do every job on the boat.

I'm not sure that's true in a nuclear Navy.

And so I will tell you, maybe there was a time that the person who ran a financial firm could do was best at every job in that firm.

But I couldn't have been, no one could be at a firm as complicated and as big and diverse as Goldman.

And so I didn't have to be.

Yes, that was when I got, when you made partner,

You had a conversation with, you know, senior partner there who was sort of assigned to acculturate new people to the firm.

And he gave you some rules of the road, you know, things like make sure you don't get anywhere near anything that today would be called Me Too kind of activity.

You know, the warnings of that kind of stuff.

Then a warning to...

You know, make sure you're very rigorous and conservative on your taxes.

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