# Lloyd Blankfein

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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.

- Role: Former Chairman & CEO, Goldman Sachs

## What Lloyd Blankfein said

- [Public markets can push companies to favor smoother earnings](https://realalpha.app/s/public-markets-can-push-companies-to-favor-smoother-earnings/)
  How I Invest · Oct 27, 2025 · 7 min
  > “you find yourself sacrificing earnings in exchange for having a smoother earning platform.” — Lloyd Blankfein · [28:49](https://realalpha.app/v/GRMhjOlVwMg/?t=1729)
- [Blankfein sees a supportive backdrop for risk assets](https://realalpha.app/s/blankfein-sees-a-supportive-backdrop-for-risk-assets/)
  How I Invest · Oct 27, 2025 · 3 min
  > “So I would say your starting position is that the next period going forward is gonna be very friendly to risk assets.” — Lloyd Blankfein · [33:47](https://realalpha.app/v/GRMhjOlVwMg/?t=2027)
- [Automated trading can magnify errors and weaken human oversight](https://realalpha.app/s/automated-trading-can-magnify-errors-and-weaken-human/)
  How I Invest · Oct 27, 2025 · 3 min
  > “Today, you can have an errant piece of software that in one minute exercises 100,000 transactions, and you could lose billions of dollars.” — Lloyd Blankfein · [17:57](https://realalpha.app/v/GRMhjOlVwMg/?t=1077)
- [Technology concentrates value among Wall Street's top performers](https://realalpha.app/s/technology-concentrates-value-among-wall-streets-top/)
  How I Invest · Oct 27, 2025 · 6 min
  > “the person who is making the decision has much more leverage today because everything has an extra two zeros at the end of it.” — Lloyd Blankfein · [12:04](https://realalpha.app/v/GRMhjOlVwMg/?t=724)
- [Goldman's reputation and scale are hard to build incrementally](https://realalpha.app/s/goldmans-reputation-and-scale-are-hard-to-build/)
  How I Invest · Oct 27, 2025 · 3 min
  > “what makes Goldman a Goldman is the influence it has, the reputation it has” — Lloyd Blankfein · [22:21](https://realalpha.app/v/GRMhjOlVwMg/?t=1341)

## The episode

- [Lloyd Blankfein at AlphaSummit: A Conversation with Jack Kokko (CEO of AlphaSense)](https://realalpha.app/v/GRMhjOlVwMg/) · How I Invest · Oct 27, 2025