What Does It Take to Run Goldman Sachs During a Meltdown? With Former CEO Lloyd Blankfein
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorenti. What does it take to lead one of the world's most powerful banks when the global financial system is on the brink of collapse? On today's episode, Lloyd Blankfein joined us to reflect on his tenure as CEO of Goldman Sachs during the 2008 financial crisis and beyond. In conversation with Lionel Barber, he discusses his journey from the public housing projects of Brooklyn to the heights of Wall Street.
This episode is created in partnership with Guinness Global Investors. Guinness Global Investors is an independent British fund manager that helps both individuals and institutions harness the future drivers of growth to achieve their investment goals. To find out more, you can head over to GuinnessGI.com or see the link in the episode description. But now let's join our host, Lionel Barber, with more. I'm Lionel Barber and it's my great pleasure to have a chance to have a conversation with Lloyd Blankfein, who for many years was the CEO and chairman of
Goldman Sachs. And I should declare that Lloyd and I have known each other for 20 years, and I think we can count ourselves as friends, even if, as we shall hear, we occasionally had uh our differences, as is natural. Um, Lloyd, let me first say uh congratulations on Streetwise. It's really very well written. Can you tell us a little bit about the creative process and the and and writing?
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