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Dhillon: Data science roles have gone mainstream beyond finance
“This is now widespread outside of financial services. You know, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley always had quant jocks. Now everybody has quant jocks.”
Blankfein: Goldman Sachs required 25 years to preserve partnership culture post-IPO
“In an instant, legally, but it's taken 25 years to get it done in a way that it wouldn't undermine the partnership culture.”
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.”
Blankfein confirms Wall Street legend about eating salad during active shooter scare
“No, that was, yeah, that was real, but it wasn't, you know, it wasn't like I was hungry. I saw every, you know, I always used, in moments of crisis like that, I always tried to be disarming.”
Blankfein: Goldman Sachs still uses the core structure of 30-year-old SecDB
“It was so good and so flexible that I think it's like, the system must be between 25 and 30 years old, and the core of it is still implemented.”
Blankfein: Goldman Sachs took Tesla public before profitability was optional
“We took Tesla public before, at a time when, and this sounds like a quaint time, when companies didn't go public until they made money.”
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? …”
Haber: Goldman Sachs built and operated its own proprietary email software
“Goldman had literally created their own email client. Like they didn't operate on Outlook or on Gmail. They had this thing called Orbit.”
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…”
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…”
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 …”