Lloyd Blankfein
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To get out of Brooklyn.
Maybe just to transition a bit to Goldman.
One of the things I've always found kind of remarkable about the firm's history is that it wasn't a business built through a series of bank mergers.
Unlike many of its peers, JP Morgan, B of A, et cetera.
It was really a business, at least from my vantage point, built brick by brick.
That kind of generations of entrepreneurial partners raising their hands, going off and building Europe or the merchant banking business.
Even the retail.
That started, that went in a different direction after I left.
Yeah, that was an outgrowth of the merchant bank.
Nurturing a business.
And then somebody said, gee, we shouldn't be just a private equity firm here.
We should be a strategic.
We are on strategic.