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Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
- ▶ 53:20 Gavin Baker Let us take whatever open source model you want, RL it for you, for your data, for Goldman Sachs, for Morgan Stanley, for JP Morgan, for Fidelity, for A-sixteen Z, you have all your own data, you control your intelligence, and we make it…
- ▶ 1:06:47 Gavin Baker He's bringing the financing alongside him by kind of standardizing it, making it easy for the very smart people at Blackstone, KKR and Apollo and Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan to finance. 2 times in the scene
Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
- ▶ 22:05 Steven Sinofsky And so we're sitting in Goldman Sachs and we're telling you about Excel is better than Lotus one, two, three, blah, blah. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:11 Steven Sinofsky A lot of the world, but there was a small set of people like those bankers at Goldman Sachs that were like, how do I do more deals faster, better, more clever models?
Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
- ▶ 1:09 Marc Rowan Um, everyone who had come out of my program at Wharton had basically gone to Goldman Sachs.
Goldman Sachs Chairman on Why Finance Adopts AI Differently | a16z
- ▶ 1:55 Lloyd Blankfein Uh, no, I am, I am freed from the restraints that I had, because I started, you know, I did this at Goldman.
- ▶ 4:27 Lloyd Blankfein 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, uh,
- ▶ 10:00 David Haber Um, you know, maybe just to transition a bit to Goldman, um, one of the things I've always found kind of remarkable about the firm's history is that, um, it wasn't a business built through a series of bank mergers. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:50 Lloyd Blankfein I think, look, you know, we were at Goldman and anybody who's doing this business, you know, and yourselves, you know, anybody who's investing, you know, you're doing two things.
- ▶ 18:24 Lloyd Blankfein Ashok is the head of trading at Goldman Sachs, a long time at this point, head of...
- ▶ 23:37 David Haber I'm curious, um, you know, how did, how did you think about technology during your time at Golden? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:44 David Haber We think a lot about, like, systems of record and their durability, and I think, yeah, Sektivi was sort of an example of that, certainly, at Goldman. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:04 David Haber And I'm curious, you know, now there's an entire generation of leaders at the firm that didn't know Goldman, you know, pre-IPO. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:40 Lloyd Blankfein Who, investment bankers who would like us to represent their client on an auction, and there are three other investment bankers who represent three different potential buyers, and you have to pick one, and we sort it out together… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:22 Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs in its 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:22 David Haber And that, that's been the main driver for why he stayed at the firm so long, despite other more lucrative opportunities along the way. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:55 Lloyd Blankfein And so, in talking to them, they said, well, Holly, I'm at Goldman Sachs, biggest equity trader, blah, blah, blah. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:59 David Haber I, uh, maybe I'll transition, because I want to get to, uh, the financial crisis and, and a few other questions maybe, uh, more present day, but, um, um, you know, Goldman fared obviously incredibly well during the financial crisis, you… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:49 Lloyd Blankfein So, I worry sometimes about, you know, in the alternative space, when, you know, it's, it's, you know, maybe a fifteen-year-old firm, but the, the guy, the, you know, I joined Goldman Sachs when Goldman Sachs were already dead. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:11 Lloyd Blankfein We didn't have, you know, go get a mortgage from Goldman Sachs, go open a checking account at Goldman Sachs, go to your local Goldman Sachs branch. 4 times in the scene
Building Blackstone, Backing Costco, and Working with Munger | Tony James on The a16z Show
- ▶ 4:43 Tony James Your old firm Goldman should have beaten them.
- ▶ 15:58 Tony James Um, there was a research report from a Goldman analyst named Joe Ellis that sort of laid out the business model, and it was very, very powerful and elegant.
Ben Horowitz on AI Anxiety, Big Tech Transitions & The Future of Startups | a16z
- ▶ 21:20 Ben Horowitz So, you know, kind of the venture capitalists of the railroads and the, um, automobiles and so forth, you know, ended up becoming JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, et cetera.
AI Markets: Deep Dive with a16z's David George
- ▶ 37:08 David George So Goldman Sachs estimates nine trillion of revenue flowing from the build out of AI.
Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years
- ▶ 0:29 unnamed speaker David, you've been at Goldman now over 25 years. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:56 unnamed speaker I've had the distinct pleasure of working, at least indirectly, for both David Solomon and Ben Horowitz, and, ah, have a lot of affection for both Goldman Sachs and A-sixty Z. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:34 unnamed speaker You know, how has the firm evolved during your tenure, and maybe more importantly, um, you know, what are you focused on to position Goldman for the future? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:09 David Solomon That doesn't mean they don't touch individuals in different ways, but Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are both institutional firms. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:34 unnamed speaker You know, one of the things that was very evident to me during my time at Goldman was how, you know, client-centric the firm was, and I know One GS was a big, kind of, focus of yours. 2 times in the scene
Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
- ▶ 30:46 Packy McCormick Haber, uh, in his piece, firm kind of greater than fund, talks about, you know, a firm is something that tries to build a compounding competitive advantage, and he points to one thing for Apollo, one thing for Goldman.
How AI Will Transform Fintech In 2026
- ▶ 16:03 unnamed speaker Um, you know, I saw this kind of firsthand, uh, certainly, you know, as an investor back at Spark, as a founder, and then inside of Goldman, just even their own sort of evolution, uh, and, and posture to technology, you know, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:43 unnamed speaker Uh, then he went to Goldman, uh, around the time that Goldman invested. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:21 unnamed speaker Add even just Goldman Sachs, and I now use them as a, as an example often, but like the, the entire firm was, uh, you know, they call the, the kind of middle and back office, the, the Federation, you know, again, these were, were folks…
Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Labor
- ▶ 13:42 Alex Rampell I thought you were going to get into, um, you know, bits versus atoms, where it's kind of interesting right now, where it's like all this high value work, like Goldman Sachs, cell site analyst, that's deep research, right?
Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption
- ▶ 7:36 Aaron Levie You know, today that equivalent commentary, whether I don't have a perfect, uh, Jamie Dimon quote, but David Solomon at Goldman Sachs,
Modernizing Warfare and Beyond
- ▶ 22:35 Qasar Younis We've gone from this era where, you know, even if you go back 30 or 40 years ago, you know, I was an engineer, but I, I did my MBA at HBS, and HBS, all the outgoing people used to be 2030 years, they wanted to be at McKinsey, they wanted…
Marco Argenti (Goldman Sachs): Turning Developers into Clients
- ▶ 0:31 unnamed speaker Today we're joined by Goldman Sachs chief information officer Marco Argenti. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:35 unnamed speaker Um, you know, had the pleasure, obviously, of working with you at, you know, during my time at Goldman. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:51 unnamed speaker You know, I know you brought a very kind of, you know, Amazon like approach, you know, to the firm at the time, and maybe just talk about that transition. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:07 unnamed speaker And, and I think I recall, I mean, that, that being actually a really important kind of message, I feel like that you brought to the firm, which was, you know, we're going to make the developer our client. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:17 unnamed speaker I think Goldman, you know, famously had built a lot of internal systems. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:41 unnamed speaker Um, and maybe, you know, we can kind of imagine the future forward and think about how it may impact, you know, kind of financial services or Goldman specifically.
- ▶ 20:08 Marco Argenti And also kind of the way we think about it, uh, in Goldman, like as a sort of a spectrum where, uh, 3 times in the scene
Marty Chavez (Sixth Street): Finding a Single Source of AI Truth
- ▶ 0:42 David Haber Prior to Sixth Street, Marty spent over two decades at Goldman Sachs, where he held a variety of senior roles, including chief information officer, chief financial officer, head of global markets, and served as a senior partner on the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:45 David Haber Uh, you know, especially during your time at Goldman Sachs and also now at Sixth Street.
- ▶ 7:03 Marty Chavez Um, then you could take that model and you could ask all kinds of counterfactual or what if questions, and as the, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, who really commissioned and sponsored this work for decades, would say, we are…
- ▶ 7:43 David Haber Maybe walk us through kind of that transition because it's not probably obvious maybe for most, and then, you know, would love to kind of dig into that, you know, your time on Goldman and the founder, et cetera. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:05 David Haber You know, famously, you know, my understanding is that SECDB really helped the firm navigate that period and, and really saved Goldman Sachs. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:34 David Haber Um, you know, I mean, you were, you know, a huge force in, in kind of the, the digitization of, of Goldman Sachs and Wall Street in general, and, and kind of the rise of the developer as decision maker.
- ▶ 25:37 Marty Chavez Really first order of business, um, and this is something that, that, that we worked on at Goldman for a long time, and I'm happy that we left Goldman in a, in a place where it's going to be able to capitalize on Gen.ai really, really…
- ▶ 27:34 David Haber Look, I think every company needs to kind of, you know, using Goldman maybe as the analogy, like, um, you know, so much, so much of the organization, but, you know, in particular, even many parts of the Federation, I think can and should…
Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter
- ▶ 30:00 Ben Horowitz Um, they're taught by like whatever, somebody from Goldman Sachs, who's, you know, wanting to do a little side education work or this and that.
When Two Giants Intersect: Healthcare Meets Fintech
- ▶ 4:21 David Haber Um, we financed a number of practices at the time and then ended up selling the business to Goldman Sachs in 2017 and had sort of a variety of strategy roles there before joining the firm.
- ▶ 47:17 David Haber And I think that was really a mistake because I certainly saw this inside of Goldman. 5 times in the scene
The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
- ▶ 29:57 Chris Power Then like, why, why would they ever go shoot for manufacturing versus going to work for Google or Goldman Sachs?
- ▶ 1:16:28 Chris Power And like, you know, humanity has still got it, you know, like it's, it's not, it's not a like cattle mill of people coming out of education and going and like clicking buttons on computers at Google or Goldman Sachs or whatever.
Explaining AI
- ▶ 6:42 Harry Shum I assume that many of us in the room probably have seen, uh, uh, DHH's tweets a few days ago about Apple car and created by Goldman Sachs.
How to Get the Most from Your Board
- ▶ 16:57 Scott Cooper Yeah, so, yeah, the investment banks, you know, you've heard of these names, Goldman Sachs, J.P.
a16z Podcast | For the Billions of Creatives Out There
- ▶ 41:41 Brian Koppelman Goldman. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | M&A and Innovation, Inside Out
- ▶ 0:04 unnamed speaker Today's episode is with Stephanie Cohen, Chief Strategy Officer at Goldman Sachs, in conversation with A-Six & Z General Partner, Martine Cassato.
- ▶ 0:52 Martin Casado She's done almost two decades of M&A, um, and now she's the Chief Strategy Officer of Goldman Sachs, so involved in, you know, strategy and innovation. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:17 Stephanie Cohen The, you know, everyone, when I first started in the job, everyone said, oh, Goldman Sachs must be going to do a ton of M&A because they put an M&A banker in charge of strategy. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:16 Stephanie Cohen Um, so the re, I think the reason why I'm in the seat is historically chief strategy officer at Goldman Sachs really did special projects. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:00 Martin Casado I mean, having, having had a lot of experience at Goldman Sachs, and actually, I, I view Goldman Sachs as one of, like, actually, like, the leaders in tech, like, like, strictly from innovation, and so, I mean, I, I spent probably 10 years… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:38 Martin Casado And in particular, and I've seen this a lot with like the large banks, actually particularly outside of Goldman
- ▶ 29:00 Stephanie Cohen And that may sound like not, not may not sound like genius, but to the Goldman Sachs organization that's been around for a 150 years, that prides itself on being the best at everything. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:08 Stephanie Cohen We want new and innovative companies calling Goldman Sachs, so it's, it's a little bit less of an issue. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:08 Stephanie Cohen We knew new executives, so we won't go through the Goldman Sachs grand vision, but in terms of where I've been focused, it's basically on three things.
- ▶ 36:08 Stephanie Cohen So when I started the strategy team at Goldman Sachs, the 40,000 employees was five people. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | B2B2C
- ▶ 18:11 Martin Casado So you say, you say, listen, like we just did this deal with Goldman Sachs or whoever it is.
a16z Podcast | From Teaching Leadership to Being a Leader
- ▶ 1:27 Andy Rachleff 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…
a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?
- ▶ 10:27 Qasar Younis It's not regulating necessarily the Goldman's and Morgan Stanley's of the world.
a16z Podcast | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- ▶ 0:47 Sonal Chokshi And Fred Ayrsom, who did computer science at Duke in undergrad, was a foreign exchange trader at Goldman Sachs in New York,
a16z Podcast | The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO
- ▶ 5:45 Jeff Jordan Goldman, Morgan, you know, just down the list.
a16z Podcast | Of Policy, Capital, and the Startup Ecosystem
- ▶ 14:46 Scott Cooper You have to do all kinds of filings, and 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…
a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
- ▶ 15:12 Parag Khanna You know, I don't have visa free entry around the world, like, uh, you know, someone from Norway, but thank goodness I work for Goldman Sachs or Accenture or McKinsey or Google.
a16z Podcast | Making the Most of the Data That Matters
- ▶ 18:08 Gaurav Dhillon You know, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley always had quant jocks.
a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
- ▶ 5:13 Shaq (Shakil Khan) I think, um, one way of looking at it, the difference between the US investment banks and the UK investment banks, I don't actually know anyone who's like, I need to get into Goldman Sachs London.
a16z Podcast | Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything
- ▶ 8:28 Matt Clifford So what we're trying to say is, how do you get the guy who otherwise would go to Goldman Sachs to even think about it at all? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | A Conversation With the Inventor of Spark
- ▶ 8:28 Matei Zaharia So, so some of the other highlights, for example, included, uh, Netflix, uh, Capital One, uh, at previous summits, we also had, uh, Goldman Sachs and, and Novartis in the biotech.
a16z Podcast | Good Bubbles, Bad Bubbles -- and Where Unicorns Come from
- ▶ 18:56 Bill Janeway The 120, hundred and forty million dollar IPO, which will get Goldman or JPM interested.
a16z Podcast | The Truth about Serving on Boards (with Diane Greene and Marc Andreessen)
- ▶ 40:17 Diane Greene So, for instance, on the Intuit board, this, there's a board member that, she was the vice chairman at Goldman Sachs for a number of years, and she's on a large number of international big financial companies, and she just brings this…
a16z Podcast | Datacenter of the Future
- ▶ 11:07 Chris Dixon Private cloud is Goldman Sachs has their own quote cloud.
a16z Podcast | Where is the Technology That "Matters?" Right Here
- ▶ 5:52 Balaji Srinivasan And now Goldman Sachs is saying it can save people two hundred billion dollars.
a16z Podcast | The State of the Bitcoin Ecosystem, and a Theory on Satoshi
- ▶ 1:48 Balaji Srinivasan So I think that, um, so the Goldman Sachs report that came out about, you know, a few days ago,