Solomon: Enterprise process automation must be driven top-down
David Solomon · Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years · Feb 2, 2026 · at 32:18
David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs, shares leadership lessons on managing internal resistance when restructuring corporate operations with AI.
0:00 / 0:09exact quote · 9.4s
▶ Watch the full episode on YouTube → 720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“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”
quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →
More from David Solomon
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”