Lloyd Blankfein on corporate communication
From Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein: Taking to Twitter | Mad Money | CNBC · · CNBC
“I don't use that platform for Lloyd Blankfein's personal point of view because I know I'm interesting to people because my role at Goldman now. I communicate and I've done it before by press release. I commented on immigration, I commented on LGBT issues, I commented obviously on the environment, more recently spending on infrastructure. And the reason why I do it, it has to fall into my mind in one of a couple of categories: either it's something that is kind of in our wheelhouse of expertise... or the other thing I'll comment on is when things really affect the ability of our people to be who they are and to do their job and to be effective as professionals.”
On , Lloyd Blankfein, Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Goldman Sachs, spoke about corporate communication during Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein: Taking to Twitter | Mad Money | CNBC on CNBC.
About Lloyd Blankfein
Lloyd Blankfein released a memoir titled *Streetwise: Getting to and Through Goldman Sachs* in April 2026 and conducted a series of media interviews to promote the book. In these appearances, he discussed his upbringing in public housing in Brooklyn, his experience as an outsider at Harvard, and his rise to become CEO of Goldman Sachs. On the subject of higher education, Blankfein said he believes young people should not skip college to chase money and fame. He also commented on Harvard, stating that governmental scrutiny caused the university to make "course corrections." In multiple interviews, Blankfein argued that the financial system is accumulating risk that could lead to a future crisis. He used the metaphor of "dry tinder" building up on a forest floor, stating that a long period without a major crisis has led to complacency and the overvaluation of private assets. Blankfein said the next crisis would be harder to contain than 2008 because reforms have spread risk beyond the reach of regulators, though he noted that such distributed risk makes the system safer for smaller shocks. He attributed Goldman's survival of the 2008 crisis to its rigorous mark-to-market accounting and risk culture, and stated that if other banks had managed themselves the same way, there would not have been a banking crisis.