Lloyd Blankfein
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Exactly.
Harvard definitely changed my perspective on what's possible.
I always say I learned more from my peers than I did from my classes.
I'm just curious if you had a similar experience.
I would say that I grew up with Manhattan looming in the distance.
I think I probably, when I was, before I went to college, I probably went into Manhattan first.
three times or something like that.
And I think twice was to the Radio City Music Hall Christmas show.
And I know once of them was an interview to go to Harvard.
And that was a big deal.
We might as well have been
$5,000 away from it because I grew up in public housing.
It was, this won't mean anything to you.
It was a two fare zone.
You had to take a bus to the subway to get to the city.
Probably took a long time to get there.
I grew up in public housing, NYCHA, where I think there's a gradation of incomes that you can have.
There's different levels of public housing.
And I think if you made more than $90 a week, you couldn't live in that particular building.