Lloyd Blankfein

And we had no anchor in the world.

They didn't know who we were.

And so we were very easy, no reputation.

My advice?

And then, of course, I was necessarily picked for my being so photogenic and being such an outward person.

You know, I was an inside guy, that hooker.

And then I had to make up for it by getting out.

And when you're being defensive and people are trying to kill you, it's not the best time to try to make friends with the public.

So I would say before then, and I know that people will think this is ego-driven, you don't want to do it, people are embarrassed to be out.

Go out and let people know who you are, know the value of what we do.

businesses wouldn't exist today, important business, but for Goldman Sachs taking a risk.

In some ways, the invisible hand that licks people with capital, with people who need capital.

We were early financiers at dark moments.

We took, you know, we took, mentioned Elon, we took Tesla Public.

At a time when, and this sounds like a quaint time, when companies didn't go public until they made money.

And that was a big deal at Goldman at that time to go out and do that and a million, you know, do things like that.

This is Microsoft too and other companies like that.

That's a very important function in the world.

Guess what?

It's time to explain that.