David Solomon

CEO, Goldman Sachs · 1 appearance on the record.

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David Solomon is the chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs. He oversees company strategy and firm-wide artificial intelligence integration initiatives such as One GS 3.0.

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2 predictions · 1 assertion · 2 opinions · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how David argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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How they sound: speaking style how? →

271 words/min while actually speaking · 11.4 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for David Solomon: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,347 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything David Solomon said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

What-if
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.”
David Solomon Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 3:47 Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years
Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2027
Solomon: Federal Reserve will likely execute only a couple more rate cuts
“That doesn't mean I think we're going to see many more rate cuts, but we're probably going to see a couple more.”
David Solomon Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 16:53 Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years
Opinion
Solomon: Current market setup for financial assets is best in decades
“If you're in our kind of businesses, if you're attached to financial assets, this is as sweet a spot that I've seen.”
David Solomon Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 0:34 Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years
Opinion
Solomon: No non-US bank can match top six US banks in global relevance
“I would argue that the six most important financial The global institutions in the US are all US financial institutions, and there is no global institution that can compete in terms of its relevance in the world with the six most important US institutions.”
David Solomon Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 6:29 Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Solomon: Goldman Sachs balance sheet must reach $3.5T when JPMorgan hits $6T
“At the moment, JP Morgan has a four and a half trillion dollar balance sheet. When JP Morgan's six, we're gonna have to be at least three and a half. You know, at least three and a half.”
David Solomon Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 7:58 Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years
Assertion Partly supported
Solomon: Top four tech spenders drove 1% of GDP growth via $400B capex
“Last year, the four largest companies contributed one percent to GDP growth with their four hundred billion dollars of spending.”
David Solomon Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 17:05 Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years
Disclosure
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 …”
David Solomon Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 8:33 Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years
Insight
Solomon: Enterprise process automation must be driven top-down
“This is hard because you're asking people to go kind of take away their empire and do their empire differently. It's got to be driven top down”
David Solomon Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 32:18 Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years

The other half of the tape: David Solomon's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 4 times in 3 episodes on the a16z Podcast. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Stephanie Cohen 2Marco Argenti 1Aaron Levie 1

Statements about David Solomon, by other people (1)

Assertion Supported
Levie: Goldman Sachs uses AI to draft S-1s in minutes
“David Solomon at Goldman Sachs, Has given this anecdote of they can write now an SEC filing or an S one for an IPO in like a few minutes that used to take a number of analysts, you know, a few days.”
Aaron Levie Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 7:36 Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years Feb 2, 2026 14m
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