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Lloyd Blankfein

πŸ‘€ Speaker
1832 total appearances

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Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

Yeah, the different kinds.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

Like I had non-hot, blah, blah, blah.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

Yes, it was.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

It's so funny because, you know, this goes back to my segment that I always had a fatalist streak.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

So I'm always, you know, you get your annual physical.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

In this particular one, it was out of cycle because, you know, I was feeling off and then I was feeling more off.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

And then I'm walk, you know, and I noticed I went to the dog was coughing, went to the doctor and he gave me, you know, throat lozenges for my cough.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

And I, I left and, and it was still not, and for me to go to a doctor other than for my regularly schedule was a big deal.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

Went back in and I got a chest x-ray, which showed nothing.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

And I'm going and I'm walking with friends.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

And I said, you know, similar to you guys are walking fast.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

They said, no, you're walking slow.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

And then at home, I was I lived in a split level house.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

And when I walked up the stairs, I was falling, walking up because I wasn't clearing the riser.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

And eventually I went back in, got a CAT scan, and then that lit up like a Christmas tree.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

And I had, you know, it's blood cancer, a million tumors, but they're all blood cancer tumors in different places in your body.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

And I had to deal with that.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

And when I started, that was kind of a 50-50 outcome.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

So, you know, talk about risk management, you're lying in bed and I had my treatment was every, you know, six, three week cycles where I had four days, 96 hours of a chemo, um, flowing, you know, flowing, you know, flowing in and then the balance of the three weeks, um, the other 17 days kind of recovering from the treatment and, uh,

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

You know, it worked out, but it does make you thoughtful about certain things.