The David Rubenstein Show: Goldman Sachs' CEO Lloyd Blankfein

[@tvm73827]

In my 10 years at the firm I had the privilege of meeting Lloyd multiple times and there wasn’t a single time he didn’t leave me impressed, actually awestruck. His intellect is matched by his incredible sense of humor. He is a hard act to follow, and the current CEO is realizing that.

[@arifulislamleeton]

Nice to meet you

[@arigutman]

David Rubenstein does it again... Love the interviews and always so much to learn from those he interviews. Thank you, David!

[@lewisrothschild2005]

Lloyd is a great great individual. He deserves everything he accomplished.

[@unuakhe]

I've listened to this man. I've also read many of your comments. It's clear many people came with preconceived notions.

[@marcwhite6267]

They're jealous they've got nothing and he's a CEO, that's the America of today for you

[@denysdanyliuk5335]

Thank you, Bloomberg, Mr. Rubenstein and Mr. Blankfein!

[@robthehitmanrude]

liked for the subtilty.

[@doucheowitzpupestein3089]

Two corrupt Zionists who leech off poor Americans. Life in prison for both.

[@rishabh_sk_kashyap9693]

@@doucheowitzpupestein3089 awww you sore loser.

[@AyaxTelemonio]

Highest level of verbal intelligence that I have ever seen.

[@kanwal1173]

I think Lloyd Blankfein is amazing! Very inspirational. A great example of drive and determination to succeed.

[@kuatsidikwahyono294]

Wait, what?

[@butt.]

You're an idiot

[@DantalianTheWise]

@J1824 you guys wanted capitalistic society, it is made to be a triangle someone had to be the bottom and the bottom had to be huge thats just how capitalism work

[@DTR89]

0:19 "you'd didn't have a lot of money" (smile wipes off his face)

[@effectosis742]

Listening to this show is like music... I'm not surprised they are all that succesful

[@arifulislamleeton]

Thank you

[@morrirowan7384]

Hes a great speaker, nice and clear depictions

[@ChrisWilliams-sc2kh]

1 hour video for a 20 minute interview?

[@kriss2558]

Master of the universe. Genius brain. Top notch IQ

[@kaitlyns4020]

He shouts alpha male I like how he faked confused and contemplating when asked uncomfortable things , same as in congress hearing

[@theproductionzz2467]

Sociopath *

[@BobanOrlovic]

Convenient how everyone who interviews him is a family friend or old friend from grad school

[@crystalyeowchingching1036]

I am not the smartest, but I have a lot of smart people around me, you are a very smart n patient man, you waited for nearly 2 years.

[@ravindertalwar553]

GREETINGS AND LOVE FROM RAVINDER TALWAR JALANDHAR CITY PUNJAB INDIA

[@jorgegomez524]

"so we are here with the vampire squid..."

[@robertcalamusso4218]

Lloyd is great. As is Jamie !!

[@British_loyalist]

What a great leader and person

[@ravindertalwar553]

Life is just to love and to be Loved 💗💜 Love alone can Conquer the World.

[@ChairmanMwale]

I think Lloyd is a smart guy

[@4davidwestwater862]

god he is so nice for a monstrer

[@merc7paul]

awesome interview

[@LEK-0525]

I have always dreamed of being a specialist valuing and performing due diligence on M&A deals at Goldman Sachs and Blackstone.... I will definitely!!! go to work at Goldman Sachs and Blackstone!!!^^ wait for me~~~~~

[@Thecriticguy16]

They mention Blankfein and Bernanke graduated Harvard in 1975 but don't point out they were roommates, or that he was also a valedictorian from a middle-class Jewish family which I guess is what Harvard was looking for at the time. Come on, a 12 year old doing a power-point presentation could have found that info. They must have glanced over wikipedia before the interview.

[@omgollo]

He mentions his valedictorian status at 0:59

[@harold868]

HE SOUNDS AND SPEAKS LIKE JORDAN BELFORT

[@JyoungPvP]

harold 8 New York

[@chestersabajo5527]

harold 8 both are Jews right..

[@Gwdufsm]

New Yorker lol

[@aliahmed800]

brooklyn accent

[@MayorSom]

Brooklyn, Brooklyn - cool story bro

[@Faiyaz225]

Ironically all the haters are broke, and he's actually living the life he created for himself........hmmmmmmm perhaps hate is not working.

[@curtingdebaptismcurtgolp262]

" Curt loves you Lloyd "

[@davids5652]

An inspirational greedy criniminal! great interview

[@Theman26642]

Inspirational story and of course Rubenstein wouldn't ask him the million dollar question: "Do you think you deserved your $100 million bonus you received during the crisis...millions of Americans were losing their jobs and houses and yet someone that created the crisis is rewarded? How is that fair?"

[@merc7paul]

Life isn't fair

[@Zayden.]

Life isn't fair. The parasitic capitalist class will realize that when their assets are confiscated by revolutionary workers and farmers governments.

[@AnthonyFike]

Fred Hampton's Ghost nitwit!

[@dc8890]

+Fred Hampton's Ghost - Here's some advice, Mr. Socialist. How many people now do you think are "farmers"? Not very many! Far fewer than there used to be! If you want to build something that can challenge the wealthy elite, then you need new ideas for a new age. You need something that the modern "working class" (which includes the office-going middle class) can buy into. Yesterday's working class is today's middle class, since so many more people work in offices now. Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848. It's a bit outdated now. I am certain that if wealth inequality keeps continuing on its current path, there will be public unrest at some point - it's inevitable. But don't focus on the ideas of "the working classes" that were written 150 years ago. You need to create a movement that the middle classes will buy into as well. You need to create a new paradigm of "class consciousness", just like Marx did all those years ago, because we live in a very different world now.

[@Mcflynerdyguy]

Daniel Feldman I know I’m 11 months late, but Lloyd didn’t get a bonus during the Great Recession. The only Wall Street executive that did was John Thain at Merrill Lynch. Also, Goldman didn’t cause the recession hence why they were forced to take TARP money. I know it’s the in thing to do in the liberal circles is to blame the successful companies on the recession, but just a touch of research goes a longs ways.

[@joeboyd8702]

Somebody rigged up the ties with the microphones for them. Then they put them on. Lloyd basically was a broker starting out.

[@Henry77680]

We are all judging these rich people...because of the sheer damage they caused, but the attitude is the same. You work in a cafeteria and sell coffee to a customer, do you tell them they are paying two dollars for an espresso that cost 2 cents to make? The structure of capitalism is fuck each other up. In this particular instance the real weapon has been to give credit to anyone to drive assets prices up and increase earning for originators of loans... secondarily smart fuckers like Goldman thrived in this anomaly. Look at your politicians and who you vote, and the free market idol. Too easy to blame Blankfein and think that if he had been in jail we wouldn't have the crisis. Its the system you support. You are as guilty as Blankfein...just poorer.

[@jagvirsandhar7443]

As populations increase there is more demand less supply for desirable areas/cities prices will increase regardless of a loans,

[@christopherperillo8037]

they are wearing the same tie in different colors

[@vivelagauche3564]

Very interesting

[@LEK-0525]

반복돼는질문에 반복돼는 대답

[@happyicare5053]

Otro crack y gran Ceo

[@javierjp8549]

Qué 😂

[@victorespino5650]

He was being repositioned within the company and turned that down, at his first job. That's something to foo should've asked more questions about, that takes courage to do. Unless it was easier to get a job then?

[@evenzero]

We're both fierce seekers

[@nataliacamargo8362]

closed caption! pliz

[@stella-mariarallis]

I Love you Lloyd Blankfein. You are the love of my life.

[@carl3063]

I just read in a really large company's bank book (looking for millions in investor dollars, i.e. not PR) that a competitive advantage (a business term which means investors can make a lot of money) was that it pursued stores in poor/rural neighborhoods with little competition and was very involved in the community. In other words, jobs are provided in areas most companies stay away from. People who hate on business, especially big business, are trolls who don't know shit. If you're poor and expect to be poor your entire life, fuck you--you deserve to be screwed out of everything.

[@happyicare5053]

Thanks and big hugg

[@theobnoxiousotter5554]

I'm going to HBS.

[@billzhang7950]

really?

[@i_b1580]

CONGRATULATIONS

[@LEK-0525]

Yeah I remember that I heard about risk management at the first time from him interviewing with another media.

[@Abraham-uk4xy]

Their communications team must do a better job to banish the imagine of the firm as an octopus and a poisonous squid as mentioned in a Rolling Stones article.

[@YEC999]

You don't need Public relations everybody "knew who you where"

[@Resgatium]

very gold !

[@kikyosai]

It's interesting that no one noticed how Blankfein wore his tie inside out...

[@mladenivanovic5571]

You havent seen Hermes tie in your life, have you?

[@victorespino5650]

They both do. But then turns out that's the style lol and yea what the top comment said

[@abaci03]

Could you put CC to these video series for disabled people?

[@Edwin-ty1tx]

Put this man in jail and tear up Goldman Sachs

[@2012photograph]

Thank you all your wisdom that share with us. Second saw on KZbin state your father was a Postal worker. I was wondering do any advice share how we Federal workforce investing in Federal government retirement know as Thrift Saving pan should invest in?. I have become a loyal follower of your show and learn a lot and thank you again

[@johnf6687]

Adam Reggie I hope his father was career and not a “casual”

[@2012photograph]

John F Some Senior workers should Casual as assets not a thread.Most realized how important Casual be given their proper respect.

[@johnf6687]

Adam Reggie they never get there proper respect, there viewed as temps

[@bedoy34]

Why aren't you in jail? should be the first question....

[@kkknotcool]

Because they did nothing illegal. And a bunch of angry poor people is not enough to get a bunch of fat cats arrested. Because the american system only cares about votes and dollars.(poor people and fat cats) Because as long as you give the poor welfare and the rich don't have to pay for the welfare you get the winning combination for everyone who matters, not the middle class, but the american economic and political system is designed to kill the middle class.

[@G5pott]

because he runs the government, all politicians are on his payroll. Too big to fail as they say...

[@jorgegomez524]

in jail? you are too good, my friend

[@ChaceBonanno]

Why would he be in jail?

[@doucheowitzpupestein3089]

Another Zionist leeching off hard working Americans. No wonder they were booted out of 100+ countries in the past millennium.

[@shrappnells]

I don`t believe a single word of his story growing up.

[@Onlinesully]

Shrappnells yep

[@LEK-0525]

I have quite similar attitude such as risk aversion investment and am interested in bond and fund investment.

[@_A_D_]

Menace 2 Society

[@jmehd]

This interviewer interrupts way too much. Jesus

[@pedrogomezrodriguez4121]

16:50 we have to let you how we fucked specially to the American people lol

[@joaari1]

Share the same tie brand. Wear them the same way Lol

[@duncanbaxter6229]

He has a hit me face

[@jessicalee9953]

I also can work 24/7 like him~~😆

[@muaaadib]

@bloomberg need to improve the video editing

[@aliqazilbash5231]

I feel like this Gentleman, Mr. Blankfein, is my new Bill Gates. Because he is quite brilliant and does a great job articulating and conveying his perspective on the public, government and private businesses and how they collaborate and improve, together. Michael Bloomberg, on the other hand, has made me feel like as if I am one of his "hollywood kids," meaning, lets say you have a lot of kids, and then they all grow and one of them ends up making it big in hollywood, in terms of fame and attention... and so, you can write off the others who didn't pan out and utilize your hollywood kid to connect with the audience.. I feel like, I am his hollywood kids, because he is not being the father I had hoped in a father. yes of-course, I still have my regular father, who despite advancing into his late 50's... works just fine! 🙂

[@maxmustermann220]

I wonder if this is a pr stunt to make Llyod Blankfein appear amicable, in order to avoid recrimination and prosecution for his decisions leading up to the financial crisis and his responsibility for it! ;) If that were the case I assume he believes it possible for him to be sued, which could imply he knows he's guilty of something. Apart from that, I couldn't care less whom he considers his imaginary friend, but this charade is ridiculous and he is absolutely exaggerating his rags to riches story. And I expect more from the CEO of Goldman Sachs than this hubris, which leads him to believe he can fool the rest of the world.

[@Theman26642]

Max Mustermann you mean Lloyd Blankfein.

[@maxmustermann220]

Why do you think they decided to conduct this interview? www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/11/goldman-sachs-2008-financial-crisis-mortagage-backed-securities Do you think they'd settle for 5 bn if they were innocet?

[@maxmustermann220]

Alter Schwede! (As we say in Germany) Get a life! You are the one insulting people, because they mix up names. "You know others by knowing yourself": ---> "Did you really think I'd buy that BS explanation that you accidentally typed "David Rubenstein" instead of "Lloyd Blankfein"?" ---> "just because you'd screw people over if you'd get the chance, does not mean everyone else will." And if you think Blankfein gives a 1 hour interview on his role in the 2008 financial crisis, in which he present himself as a self made, altruistic average joe, after his company admits to wrongdoing by paying 5 bn and he was called out for fraud in front of the entire world, without any agenda, I feel sorry for you. On that note: Ha det så bra!

[@Shadefecator]

Then you didn't really know his name now, did you? :P Of course he had an agenda (everyone does for everything), but when it comes to the "content" of that agenda I withhold my judgment. It's an extremely complex system, and the easy conclusion is to believe in "the evil of bankers", but it's seldom the truth. At the very least, the reality is much more nuanced than that. To put things in perspective: the "housing bubble" gave the poorest americans the opportunity to buy houses they, by normal standards, never could afford, and if the bubble hadn't burst they would probably still live in them happily. With that being said, it was a bit too risky, but hindsight is 20/20! I have a very hard time believing that this settlement was an admittance btw. Most propably, it was solely the most monetary-effecient way of handling it, but that too is conjecture. In reality, we don't know anything more than that they agreed to the settlement. Either way, I don't live my life believing I'm being screwed by "the elite", which makes me much happier so I do not need your pity. Güten tag, mein Herr!

[@Shadefecator]

Well, not to come off as arrogant, but... hm... I've studied corporate finance on advanced level (I've got master's degree), and the overall economic system IS too complex to fully understand. Simply put: you try to do one thing and it ends up affecting something you never even considered. Also, people are ignorant/not educated enough. The system is built on the premise that people will act rationally and economically sane, but that's not true at all. Still, it's the "least bad" approach we have, and if you're financially educated you can use the system to work for you, which is partly why the rich get richer. Anyway, with such a complex system it's very hard to establish responsibility, which means it's very hard to prove innocence or blame! But yes, if Goldman Sachs and other banks were an instrument of philantropy they'd write off debts/loans/mortgages etc, but they're not. Every business, whether it's small or big, need to earn money to keep on operating, but that doesn't mean they're evil and willing to do _everything_ for a measly dollar. In theory. Of course some organizations and people are asshats and big banks are not "heaven on earth" filled with angels, but in analogy with what I said in the last paragraph: it's impractical to assume such a premise. I can appreciate the witch hunt in some sense, because you will help keep things in check, but at the end of the day I don't think I agree with you. Your world view seems to be too black and white. Finally, you're obviously not retarded haha! This is the internet! What we lack in non-verbal communication we make up for hyperbolism! With that being said, I was too hard on you! Entschuldigung!

[@frulingstimmen]

"I grew up poor -feel sorry for me please!"

[@Onlinesully]

jannie kletz They always exaggerate that point in these interviews.

[@tommathew7684]

Lloyd Blankfein needs to go to prison.

[@KINGOFOUTWEST]

Still spending money.

[@mrright7689]

hell logs.

[@happyicare5053]

😊😊

[@willdarling1]

some lizards shed their tails when they get scared

[@danilormartinsusa]

I feel bad for him...l always wrong hahahaha

[@stephenbelcher]

: Putin listening

[@bb-ur7fw]

Does he feel remorse? Defrauding the world and wrecking peoples dreams.

[@crystalyeowchingching1036]

See you in MIEM, my CEO in Miem for my currency trading.

[@monsieurfortuna9952]

Greedy Billionaire

[@arifulislamleeton]

Hi I'm Ariful Islam leeton im software engineer and members of the international organization who and Co Founder Open A. I And Students Harvard Business school and investors public and private sector

[@noreenhappel8531]

These people are such liars!!!!!

[@salbahadur8413]

9:56

[@nickm4974]

Whole Lotto Nothing

[@jimcuddy7407]

but he never talks about his jewish mom

[@Gwdufsm]

lol ddnt make money in recession? I thought you guys made 40 billion in profit the year lol

[@lnhart7157]

There was no recession last year

[@JeffryGilbertBKK]

Another evil being.

[@FreddyPoveda]

the interviewer needs to learn how to let the guest. he keeps cutting him off!! I