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Former Chairman & CEO, Goldman Sachs
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Real Alpha has cut 5 moments of Lloyd Blankfein (Former Chairman & CEO, Goldman Sachs) talking, from an interview on How I Invest published Oct 27, 2025.
What Lloyd Blankfein said
Lloyd Blankfein at AlphaSummit: A Conversation with Jack Kokko (CEO of AlphaSense)
5 moments · 22 min
- 24:19
Public markets can push companies to favor smoother earnings
“you find yourself sacrificing earnings in exchange for having a smoother earning platform.”
at 28:49 - 31:15
Blankfein sees a supportive backdrop for risk assets Pro pick
“So I would say your starting position is that the next period going forward is gonna be very friendly to risk assets.”
at 33:47 - 16:10
Automated trading can magnify errors and weaken human oversight
“Today, you can have an errant piece of software that in one minute exercises 100,000 transactions, and you could lose billions of dollars.”
at 17:57 - 10:26
Technology concentrates value among Wall Street's top performers
“the person who is making the decision has much more leverage today because everything has an extra two zeros at the end of it.”
at 12:04 - 21:17
Goldman's reputation and scale are hard to build incrementally
“what makes Goldman a Goldman is the influence it has, the reputation it has”
at 22:21
- 24:19