Lloyd Blankfein
23 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 12, 2026 by Lloyd Blankfein · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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May 12, 2026 positive
Blankfein: AI hyperscalers are led by founder-owners risking their own equity
“The people who are, you know, the big hyperscalers are firms that are dominated by founding shareholders who are putting their own money where their mouth is. These aren't professional managers Making bets on the future with other people's money. This is their…”
May 12, 2026 negative
Blankfein: Active social media posting offers no value and high cancellation risk
“Being in the risk management business, I always know that everybody keeps doing that, and eventually you get, Canceled because you do, you know, you do something, you step over some invisible line that, you know, that nobody knew about. And so I realized that …”
May 12, 2026
Blankfein: Companies should prioritize board members who have survived real crises
“And that's why, I mean, my advice you know, when you pick board members, and by this a very, I'm turning something that's generic into a very narrow things, I think a good place to go is find people who've already gone through a crisis. Because to me, people w…”
May 12, 2026
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 neutral
Blankfein: Halting AI development is futile because knowledge cannot be unlearned
“You're not gonna get people to be stupider than they are or unlearn things they've already learned. You can wish that atomic, that the atom had never been split, because maybe the adverse consequences of atomic bombs are worse than the benefits of nuclear powe…”
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 positive
May 12, 2026
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
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
May 12, 2026 positive
May 12, 2026
Blankfein: Early-career crisis conduct shapes long-term reputation with future industry leaders
“Your cohort is gonna going to run for all the important institutions 35 years from now, or 30 years from now, or 20 years from now. And you're gonna going to make your reputation with those people 30 years from now Believe it or not, are gonna be how they reme…”
May 12, 2026
May 12, 2026 negative
Blankfein: Automated trading software introduces unprecedented scale for multi-billion dollar losses
“Before this technological age, not just AI, but in general, could you have had a mistake that could cost billions of dollars? Not really, but now you can leave a piece of software, could go out and do 70,000 transactions. The leverage in these things is themse…”
May 12, 2026 bearish
May 12, 2026 negative
Blankfein: LLMs create systemic risk by removing institutional intuition and audit trails
“You know, one of the, you know, when you get, when you go into some of these large language models, you don't know the thought process. You lose intuition in these things. It used to be when I started out in the business, You know, people be shrieking each oth…”
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 neutral