Lloyd Blankfein
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And, you know, I don't know whether it's the effects of malnutrition or just eating a lot of fatty foods or whatever.
But...
I, I, I wasn't, I wasn't short where I was growing up.
And then when I got to college, like the first day I'm walking with some of the people from my floor, we're going to walk into the dining hall.
And I looked to the left, I looked to the right and I felt like a Valley between two mountains.
And I said, boy, you guys are tall.
You guys are tall.
And they looked at me and he said, no, we're not tall.
You're short.
And I looked around and I said, you know,
Gosh, you're right.
And it was the first time I thought of it.
So I guess I didn't suffer from a bad ego at that point because I thought of myself bigger than I was.
I read your story, too.
Again, it's not the same, but it rhymes.
Both Italian household, Jewish household, striving, very working class parents.
And somehow we made it, punched above our weight and made it to fancy school.
You and I both went to Harvard Law School.
Who would believe that for either one of us at this point?
No way.