The Man Goldman Is Banking On

摘要

Lloyd C. Blankfein is probably one of the few vice-chairmen on Wall Street who wears a pager to monitor real-time currency and commodity prices. He still walks the trading floors―and chats late into the night over his BlackBerry with employees about the global markets. "Sometimes, I make the mistake of going to bed at 2 a.m. and wake up at 4:30 a.m. and there will be 17 messages from him," says Gary Cohn, co-head of fixed income, currency, and commodities at Goldman, Sachs & Co. That drive and attention to detail enabled Blankfein, the son of a Brooklyn postal worker, to become the first in his family to go to college. He went on to rocket up the ranks of Goldman, where his trading operations brought in much of the firm's profits last year.