Lloyd Blankfein

You can be their friend, but you're not there to be their friend.

You can also be their friend.

You're there.

It's like if you're a military leader, you don't want the –

your commanding officer to be a good juggler or tell you good jokes.

You want them to lead you well, worry about your safety, and not make you take risks, stupid risks for no purpose.

And that's what you want.

And if they like you, that's good.

But you want them to appreciate you.

You want them to feel they're going to be better by partnering with, by following your flag and not someone else's.

I think it's great advice.

You know, maybe to transition more to present day, you know, for better or for worse, I think, or maybe for worse, I would argue, but I think a lot of the technology companies are going to inherit a lot of the public flack that affirms.

Oh, guaranteed.

Right, right.

So, I mean... Once upon a time, we were you, right?

We were the investment bank and all these other commercial banks, and then it evolves, and now, you know, you're an institution now, and there's people who market themselves as a...

more flexible, current, now version, you know, version of what you used to be.

But even beyond like our firm, because, you know, but I think like a lot of the AI labs are, you know,

They're going to create a lot of change in the world, in our economy.

Sure.