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Lloyd Blankfein

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1832 total appearances

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The a16z Show
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

And the battery went out.

The a16z Show
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

And I know that battery must have been here for 22 years.

The a16z Show
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

I think I owned that device for like 40 years.

The a16z Show
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

And I looked at that and I said, you know, I never thought of this before.

The a16z Show
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

But what consumer device?

The a16z Show
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

It's still tracking.

The a16z Show
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

After 40 years, not only are people still using, but looks like it could have been designed, you know, last year.

The a16z Show
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

It's an amazing thing.

The a16z Show
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

Well, our SecDB was kind of like that.

The a16z Show
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

It was also, but it wasn't a consumer device, but it was a good like this.

The a16z Show
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

I have a lot of admiration for some, you know, for design that really, you don't expect design to stand the test of time.

The a16z Show
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

Fashion doesn't.

The a16z Show
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

Sure.

The a16z Show
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

But this does.

The a16z Show
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

I'm telling you, the original iPhone looks like an old product to me.

The a16z Show
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

The A12C looks pretty good.

The a16z Show
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

We think a lot about like systems of record and their durability.

The a16z Show
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

And I think, yeah, SycTV was sort of an example of that, certainly at Goldman.

The a16z Show
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

You know, one of the things that I think was unique about your career as well is you spent half of your time at the firm kind of pre-IPO in a partnership and half the time, you know, post.

The a16z Show
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

Sure, very relevant to your entrepreneurs.