Goldman Sachs
also referred to as: goldman
includes Goldman Sachs Strategy Team
59 statements across 13 episodes · 21 bullish · 5 bearish · 14 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Balaji Srinivasan · said 214 times in 38 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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brought up most by David Haber (56), Lloyd Blankfein (24), Stephanie Cohen (18), David Solomon (15), Martin Casado (9), Brian Koppelman (5), Steven Sinofsky (4), Marco Argenti (3)
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2026 103 mentions in 9 episodes 11 per episode
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- Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
- Ben Horowitz on AI Anxiety, Big Tech Transitions & The Future of Startups | a16z
- AI Markets: Deep Dive with a16z's David George
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 12 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2024 40 mentions in 3 episodes 13 per episode
2023 6 mentions in 1 episode
2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 50 mentions in 19 episodes 3 per episode
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- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
Everything said about Goldman Sachs, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Cooper: JOBS Act right-sized SEC filing regulations for early-stage companies
“One of the things that Job Act did was kind of modify the regulatory requirements around those filings to kind of right-size it for what is appropriate for an earlier stage company instead of what might be appropriate, for example, for a GM or a Goldman Sachs …”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Rachleff: Wealthfront software outperforms Goldman Sachs' $15M accounts for $500
“So basically what we're trying to do is take the financial services that are delivered to the very wealthy through people called private wealth managers, automate those services and software so we can deliver it for account minimums of as low as 500 dollars, a…”
Jan 2, 2019
Cohen: Companies with strong distribution should acquire secondary market players
“But if you're a big company, and you have access to, for example, clients and distribution, maybe the party that's a number two is a number two, because they don't have access to that. And so then they have the same product, but they don't have access. So then…”
Jan 2, 2019
Cohen: Red team exercises prevent large companies from making M&A mistakes
“And if you stop and actually have a group of really smart people internally and maybe with your external advisor say, we're going to show up for one day, for two hours, and we're going to make the case on the other side, and in the process of making that case,…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019
Cohen: Competing internal builds against external software prevents insular development
“If you're competing the own, your own internal projects with either buy and by buy, I mean, just buy the product from a software or other perspective, or buy meaning by the company. If you're doing that in a relatively systematic way, I think you're avoiding s…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Cohen: Strategy and M&A belong within the same team
“I think about it as the way that we think about it is that we want strategy and MNA to be in the same place. So instead of having a group of people that goes off and does strategy and a group of people that goes off and does MNA, and by the way, incentivizing …”
Jan 2, 2019
Cohen: Combining build and buy strategies forces enterprises to engage specialized startups
“The second thing is if you have a perspective around it's not buy versus buyer build, it's both, then you are going to force yourself to deal with individual vendors in a lot of cases because you are looking for very specific solutions. Of course, like every b…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Cohen: Underfunded female founders represent a prime commercial investment opportunity
“We felt that women were not getting the capital that they needed or deserved, and that it really meant that they were a good investment. So there's a lot of capital out there, which many people know, but in a place that's being under invested, we thought there…”
Jan 2, 2019
Cohen: Protecting core-business internal startups is harder than isolated ventures
“But another thing that we're focused on that we've talked about is cash management and payments. Well, this gets to the very core of what we do every day. It's the, it's our core investment banking clients. It's core to our internal payment functions. And so, …”
Jan 2, 2019
Cohen: Acquired companies need internal 'bat phone' contacts during integration
“Taking a group of people internally who have experience with M&A, who know the internal business, who know how to get things done from your internal engineering team, from compliance, Having an internal team and pairing them with the company, I think is really…”
Jan 2, 2019
Cohen: Fear of losing targets to rivals drives maximum acquisition prices
“When I was on the sell side, my favorite thing was to find the buyer who not only wanted to win, but was afraid to lose. When you had the guy or the gal who thought that their arch, their biggest rival was going to buy something, that was how you actually got …”
Jan 2, 2019
Cohen: Enterprise acquisition synergies fail when buyer personas differ
“The second thing is, you know what you bought, and what I mean by know what you bought, that's particularly important in the enterprise space, where it's more confusing, right? So, you're a company, you sell a lot to a certain sector, and then you buy another …”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Cohen: Isolating innovation projects risks alienating employees driving core daily operations
“You could get to a place where you actually distract the whole organization because in an organization of tens of thousands of people, there's a lot of people every day who just have to be with their clients, execute, and they need to have fun doing that and n…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Cohen: Regulated corporations fail when building non-core technology internally
“I think companies get in trouble when they try to do things That should happen externally, internally. And what I mean by that is I think there are certain types of talent that have no desire to work inside an organization that has 40,000 people, that's highly…”
Jan 16, 2020 negative
Apr 30, 2024 neutral
Goldman Sachs didn't predict the 2008 crisis, they just hedged their risk
“We didn't know that the financial crisis was coming. Of course, you know, we got in the press and elsewhere accused of all kinds of crazy things. Like they were the only ones who hedged so they must have known it was coming. We were just predictors of the pres…”
Apr 30, 2024 positive
Goldman delivered 47 Lehman closeout claims within an hour of bankruptcy
“We had our courier show up, At Lehman's headquarters within an hour of its filing bankruptcy protection for the 47 entities, and we had 47 sheets of paper with our closeout claim against each of those entities rolled up from wide across all the businesses, and…”
Apr 30, 2024 bullish
Argenti: AI will accelerate real-time financial operations and complex modeling
“You know, you need to go through front to back extremely quickly that, and so all that, I think this shift towards more of a real time business is something that AI definitely will accelerate the ability to have very complex models of the world and of the econ…”
Apr 30, 2024 positive
Apr 30, 2024
Goldman Sachs selected 15 to 19 AI use cases for pilots
“So we have set up you know, a working group or a committee that kind of reviews all the ideas when we selected out of hundreds idea of ideas, we've selected about 15 or 19 actually at this point that we're kind of, you know, at different phases of piloting.”
Apr 30, 2024 positive
Apr 30, 2024 positive
Argenti: Goldman Sachs builds compliance scaffolding around open-source software
“And so many, in many cases, you know like we decide to use a vendor or we decide to use open source, and then we build a kind of, you know, like, let's say a scaffolding around it to make sure that A, it integrates with our systems and with our data and B, you…”
Apr 30, 2024 positive
Apr 30, 2024
Goldman Sachs operates roughly 10 core enterprise developer platforms
“Now again, fast forwarding, we have about 10 of them firm wide, like, there are heavily adopted like cloud platform, the data platform, or the identity and access management platforms the API platform, mobile platform, and so forth that developers can just bui…”
Jul 14, 2025 bullish
Dec 19, 2025
Feb 2, 2026 positive
Solomon: Goldman Sachs holds $500B in total deposits, funding 40% of firm
“We've got, you participated in this, a very excellent digital deposit platform that now has, you know, over two hundred billion dollars of deposits, and we've also, we have about five hundred billion dollars of total deposits. 15 years ago, we had zero. So we …”
Feb 2, 2026 negative
Solomon: Goldman Sachs would resemble Lazard without 1999 IPO
“If the firm hadn't gone public in 1999, it would have missed kind of the global expansion of capital markets and probably would look more like, not to pick on anybody, but just to pick any more like Wazard. Today than like Goldman Sachs.”
Feb 2, 2026
Feb 2, 2026 neutral
May 5, 2026 negative
May 12, 2026 negative
Blankfein: Robinhood incorrectly claimed to offer government-insured accounts early on
“I looked at, you know, Robin Hood, great company. But early on, you know, they declared a kind of they declared that they had government-insured accounts that weren't government-insured. They had some slip-ups and a lot of apologies get made. You could do that…”
May 12, 2026
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May 12, 2026 positive
Blankfein: Risk meetings should prioritize concrete action plans over debating probabilities
“And when you go around the table for those meetings, you're not so much interested in what people think about the future, where things will go. You just want to know, forget about what you think the likelihood, improbability of something happening is. What wil…”
May 12, 2026 positive
Blankfein: Goldman Sachs partnership grants a baseline presumption of intelligence
“Saying that, you know, look, I was a partner at Goldman. I'm not saying this is exclusive to Goldman. But saying your partner, at least people will, the presumption has shifted that you're not a dummy unless you prove you're a dummy, as opposed to other people…”
May 12, 2026 positive
May 12, 2026
Blankfein: In a Crisis, Key Leadership Task Is Keeping People Performing
“Most of the time, like at Goldman and in most, most of life, in a crisis time, the real important thing is just to get people to do their jobs, and to stop being, you know, stop, you know, don't be frozen, and don't be Don't submit to the chaos.”
May 12, 2026 neutral
May 12, 2026 neutral
Blankfein: Managing risk mostly means persuading hesitant employees to take more risk
“But, you know, we have a lot of risk takers. And I would say that the biggest challenge for management is the risk management side, which is really getting people to refrain from risk. Which is about a third of the time when you're in that business, and by the…”
May 12, 2026
Blankfein: Goldman Sachs rejected me before acquiring my firm, J. Aron
“I interviewed A lot, and being in New York, what do you go into when you're done? Whether you go to, you either become a consultant or, you know, go to Wall Street. I said, I'll go to Wall Street. And, you know, give a, you know, there I will. I will bestow my…”
May 12, 2026 positive
May 12, 2026
Blankfein: Never tell reporting employees 'I already know' to prevent self-censorship
“One thing I never did, if somebody was calling to tell me something that was bothering them, that they saw an opportunity or a challenge, I never said I already know about it. Because I never wanted anybody to self-censor later.”
May 12, 2026
Blankfein: Off-balance-sheet vehicles lower unit revenue but boost ROE and P/E
“We shifted a lot of that to off-balance sheet vehicles, and by the way, means you have to do more of it. Because instead of earning a hundred-cent dollars, you're earning twenty-cent dollars with lower risk, and a higher P.E., and a higher R.R. Return on equit…”
May 12, 2026 positive
May 12, 2026
May 12, 2026 positive
May 12, 2026
May 12, 2026 positive
Blankfein: Goldman Sachs honored its Chrysler loan commitment during 2008 crisis
“There was a time we had this loan outstanding, you know, to Chrysler. I remember the CEO then at Chrysler calls me up. And are you gonna honor that commitment? And I said, yes. And I think it was due at a certain, and I said, and he said, can you do that now? …”
May 12, 2026
Blankfein: Subordinating short-term ego to a firm yields greater long-term power
“We just said that if you subordinate it in the short term or during, at key times, in favor of a platform, you can exploit that platform, again, professionally, because the firm would have much more heft and power and authority.”
May 12, 2026
Blankfein: The repeal of Glass-Steagall forced Goldman Sachs to go public
“So we had to, you know, if J.P. Morgan was gonna become an advisor, we had to become a good lender and a good financier. So it meant that we had to have a bigger balance sheet. Couldn't run that on impermanent capital of a partnership. And so we had to go publ…”