白天他是全球顶尖投行高盛的CEO，晚上化身夜店DJ大叔（附视频）

美国时间7月17日，执掌高盛12年、现年63岁的贝兰克梵在季度董事经理会上正式宣布将于9月30日卸任CEO一职。10月1日起，这家拥有近150年历史的国际大行将交由公司总裁、现年56岁的大卫·所罗门（David Solomon）掌舵。

高冷、行走的人肉计算器、金钱权力游戏的主角……这就是你对华尔街精英的想象？这位即将上任的高盛CEO，将打破你所有的刻板印象。

阳光，沙滩，穿比基尼的性感美女，配上节奏感十足的的电子音乐和美味炫目的鸡尾酒，这是巴哈马群岛的最为普通的一天。但与往日不同的是，那个站在舞台中心的DJ格外耀眼。

这个玩弄着先进的音响系统，沉醉于打碟和电子音乐的“光头DJ大叔”就是高盛新任CEO戴维·所罗门。他不仅是一位在投资圈浸淫多年的银行家，还是一位电子舞曲混音大师D.J.D-Sol，业余时间穿梭在纽约和迈阿密的俱乐部打碟。

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Goldman Sachs on Tuesday named David M. Solomon as its next chief executive, putting a veteran investment banker in charge of a Wall Street giant that faces mounting challenges.

Mr. Solomon’s appointment will end the tenure of Lloyd C. Blankfein, the 63-year-old former gold salesman who has run the firm since 2006 and steered it through the financial crisis. Mr. Blankfein will hand over the chief executive role on Oct. 1 and remain chairman until the end of the year. Mr. Solomon, 56 and currently the bank’s president, will add the chairman title at the beginning of 2019.

Mr. Solomon’s appointment is likely to begin a series of management changes in the upper ranks of the firm, as the new chief executive selects his own lieutenants. He will also have responsibility over a plan to increase the bank’s revenue by $5 billion over a three-year period.

“Organizations, to move forward, have to evolve, they have to change, they have to adapt,” Mr. Solomon said in a joint interview late Monday with Mr. Blankfein ahead of the formal announcement.

“When things are going badly, you can’t leave. And when things are going well, you don’t want to leave,” Mr. Blankfein said. “So if you’re going out on your own steam, it’s always going to be at a moment when you don’t want to leave. And by the way, that’s why people sometimes stay too long.”

The announcement came the same day that Goldman Sachs reported better-than-expected financial results.

Mr. Solomon was named sole president of the firm in March, raising expectations that he would eventually rise to its top job.

Mr. Blankfein oversaw a period of change at Goldman Sachs. Its money-management business, while smaller than that of Morgan Stanley, probably Goldman’s closest competitor, roughly doubled. Goldman’s shares are up 57 percent during Mr. Blankfein’s tenure, a better performance than all but two major United States banks, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.

More recently Goldman has come under pressure. Its securities trading businesses, long considered a core strength, have performed worse than other big banks in recent years by wide margins.

Nevertheless, “this is a period of time when I’m feeling quite optimistic about our positioning,” Mr. Blankfein said. “I’m also feeling quite good about the external environment.”

He added that there was no personal reason for his departure.

“Could it have been earlier?” he said. “Could it be later? I’m not tired. I’m well. I’m not out of gas.” But he added, “David is ripe and ready and the right guy.”

Already, Mr. Solomon has pushed for changes to Goldman’s business. He has introduced smarter technology in stock trading and investment management. He has moved salespeople from corporate-trading desks into the investment-banking division to help streamline interactions with clients. He is expanding Goldman’s nascent consumer bank, which is called Marcus, into new areas.

To some analysts and other close watchers of Goldman, the shift should have come sooner.

“Lloyd Blankfein’s legacy will be defined by how Goldman performs over the next couple of years after he’s gone,” said Mike Mayo, a banking analyst at Wells Fargo who has covered Goldman for 15 years. The firm’s growth plan, he added, “would fall into the category better late than never.”

During Mr. Blankfein’s first full year running Goldman Sachs, the firm brought in close to $1 billion per week in revenue, thanks largely to its stock and bond trading. Then came the financial crisis that hobbled the banking industry, followed by a return to robust profits in 2009. Those were later challenged by a raft of new regulations that upset its legacy business model.

“There were opportunities in my time that I may have missed, and there were traps that I caught,” Mr. Blankfein said. “At the end of the day, the firm during my tenure faced existential risk in terms of the first half of the financial crisis and extraordinary reputational risk, which came about partially because we navigated the existential risk as well as we did.”

The firm also faced a raft of criticism for profiting from the financial crisis at the expense of some clients. It incurred a $550 million fine from the Securities and Exchange Commission for its actions.

The selection of Mr. Solomon marks a cultural change at Goldman Sachs. He is an investment banker rather than a trader in a culture that has been dominated by trading for much of the past decade. Unlike many of his peers who grew up within Goldman, Mr. Solomon was hired as a partner after a swift rise at Bear Stearns, a rival firm.

In a sharp contrast to the typical Wall Street chief executive, Mr. Solomon is known for having a variety of outside interests, including collecting rare wine, practicing yoga and, most famously, playing electronic dance music as a D.J. once a month under the stage name DJ D-Sol.

On the day after being named successor to Lloyd Blankfein as the Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, David Solomon, the firm’s current President and COO, sat down with interns for an Explore GS session. The Explore GS series provides our interns around the world with insights and advice from leaders across the firm.

The session covered many topics, as David talked about how he came to join Goldman Sachs, the advice he gives people at the start of their careers, and his passion for music.

A few of the highlights from the conversation:

On why someone should start their career at Goldman Sachs:

“We do and we will continue to invest a lot in people to come here out of school to train them, to introduce them to all sorts of really, really smart people that are going on to do wonderful things in the world, to give them mentoring - mentorship, guidance and experience.”

On the early years of one’s career:

“It’s a time of self-exploration, of growth and my advice is go to a great place, work for great people, learn a bunch, grow, develop, see how you feel.” 

On the importance of outside-of-work interests:

“I think it’s very important you have something or some things that you do as you go through your career and your life to clear your head.”

On DJ-ing and producing music:

“The skill becomes curating music and the cool thing becomes producing your own music.  I’ve got my track up on Spotify. I remixed Fleetwood Mac’s, “Don’t Stop”. … I’m up to about 1.3 million streams.”

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戴维·所罗门是高盛集团的主要高层管理人员之一，1999年进入高盛成为合伙人，2006年至2016年之间，一直是投行业务的主管。在Gary D. Cohn 离开高盛，成为美国总统川普的全国经济委员会主席后，所罗门被任命为高盛的联合主席和首席运营官。

虽然今年已经55岁，但戴维·所罗门仍然热爱节奏强烈的电子音乐，对自己的DJ事业充满激情。所罗门表示，电子音乐让他更加精力旺盛，他享受自己打碟，看着全场的人和他的音乐一起跳舞，一起嗨的场面，这使他感觉自己变得更加年轻。

也正是因为这一特殊爱好和这样一颗不老的心，所罗门在华尔街备受“年轻一代”的推崇，收获了一大批迷弟和迷妹。

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为了这一爱好，所罗门也是“不辞辛苦”。基本上每个月，所罗门都会前往纽约、迈阿密或巴哈马赶场子，去参加各种聚会、夜店和酒吧当DJ。

（所罗门在网络上发布自己的DJ作品）

同时，他还热衷于将自己打碟的视频放到Instagram，收获了一大批粉丝。不过他的Instagram账号并没有显示是高盛的戴维·所罗门，而是DJ-D-Sol.，以至于很多粉丝并不知道他的真实身份。

不过这一爱好和这个Instagram账号，很快引起了纽约时报的注意。遭到纽约时报的曝光后，所罗门就把自己的Instagram账号设为“private”(仅朋友可见), 但依然有不少“狗仔队”在网上上传所罗门打碟的视频。

（戴维·所罗门在自己Instagram账号dj_d_sol上po的图片|在巴拿马群岛中的大瓜纳岛上度过了一个精彩的周末，享受打碟，享受美好的天气，享受人群的欢乐)

所罗门也会努力让自己的DJ和网红事业更加有创意和逼格，他会在网上发一张自己被各种摄影作品包围，除了绿色的腕表，色调都是黑白的复古腔调自拍照，并附上文字：“马上就要尝试黑胶唱片，更多的自我探索和挑战”。嗯，潜台词就是华尔街逼格不能丢，黑胶唱片这种文艺范儿不能错过~

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近几年，随着硅谷的崛起，大批天赋秉异的年轻人纷纷选择离开华尔街转投硅谷。所罗门认为，想要重新吸引年轻一代的人才，需要改变华尔街古板、一本正经的文化。虽然这个观点引起了不少董事会成员的嘲笑，但所罗门显然决定以身作则。

高盛的发言人Jake Siewert表示，所罗门一直相信，兴趣广泛，并且懂得更好地在生活与工作中寻找平衡对事业发展极为重要。

而所罗门也在一直和高盛年轻员工强调这一点，希望自己能够以身作则，为年轻人树立一个榜样。所罗门甚至发起了一个提高年轻雇员生活质量，减少周末工作时间的调查研究。

总之，不管董事会对所罗门这一兴趣的评价如何，华尔街年轻一代的雇员和所罗门在Instagram的粉丝们都对所罗门赞不绝口，很多粉丝纷纷在Instagram留言表示“力挺”所罗门的爱好与想法。

转自精彩英语演讲  作者 英语演讲第一站  

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