Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon’s $143 billion AI question signals what’s ahead
David Solomon loves to portray himself as a softhearted executive. He jokes that the public view of him as tough and unsentimental isn’t accurate. In private—with his two daughters, now 34 and 31, and his 10‑month‑old granddaughter—his warmth and gentleness come through clearly.
“I’m really a sentimental softie, even if I don’t come across that way,” Solomon told the Australian Financial Review Business Summit.
James Thomson, a veteran business journalist based in Melbourne, writes the Chanticleer column and previously edited BRW Magazine and The Australian Financial Review’s Companies desk.
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