Lloyd Blankfein

When he retired, I used to go out to lunch with him like once a quarter.

I just did it in appreciation after he'd long retired.

In a way, it was because I didn't grow up in it.

I kind of came in through the back door.

I applied – I practiced law for a while.

I applied to Wall Street like everyone does after four or five years.

You go get a different job when you're in a law firm because it's such a miserable life being a –

a junior lawyer in a law firm.

I didn't get a job at any of the big firms, including Goldman.

I got a job at J. Aaron & Company, which was acquired by Goldman, which is how I got in through the back.

And that was a small commodity trading firm.

And I grew up through the then commodity division and started to create more responsibilities in trading and sales as it went on.

But

because I was an outsider and because I was always felt a little bit out of things, you know, when I got to college, other kids had gone to prep school.

I went to, you know, failed high school in East New York.

I was always a little bit remote.

I didn't dress it.

I didn't go, you know, I didn't have the same life experiences that other people had at that point.

I didn't track.

I was always a little bit out of it.