Vlad Barbalat
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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And some of those things may mean reverts.
So maybe regulatory burden reverts, that's at least fixable.
But the main reason of capital being available to you as a private company, I think that stays.
And so this balance will persist.
I think if you are an equity investor, you should look at the equity risk first and then decide what is the best way to get it.
We have not stopped by any means investing in the private markets.
There are other reasons why our balance sheet specifically is probably not best suited for public market exposure that is specific to our balance sheet.
Doesn't mean we don't participate, doesn't mean we don't take opportunities when they look particularly compelling, but we will continue to largely focus in the private space for our equity exposure.
Goldman's one of these places where when you're there, you're amongst such talented and driven people.
It's a hard place to be and it's a thrilling place to be, but you're particularly actually appreciated once you're not in it because of all the things that you didn't know you were learning that you were in fact learning.
I think we brought a drive for excellence.
I find it implausible to just sit still.
to take something and say, this is good enough.
Why should we do this?
This involves risk.
It's just this motor that I think people that come and have been reasonably successful in all these organizations, that it's inherent to them that they are always pushing forward, even though another person may look at that and say, why do you bother?
I think about this a lot.
First of all, I clearly don't know the answer to it, but I think as I've gotten older, I think about this in a very existential way.
When you have a family, when you think about the incredibly important lens that provides, particularly through the lens of your kids, you could split your identity in so many different ways.
And if you overswing to one or the other, something suffers and everybody's got their own
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