About This Book
Lloyd Blankfein grew up in the projects of East New York. Goldman Sachs didn't see that coming. Neither did he.
Streetwise is a candid, often funny memoir from the former Goldman Sachs CEO tracing his education from Brooklyn public housing to Harvard Law to the highest levels of global finance. Warren Buffett calls Blankfein “scary smart about people, markets, and life generally.” The book is richest on the 2008–2009 financial crisis, told from the inside by the person who guided the firm through it.
Beneath the business narrative is a deeper story about culture: how Goldman's partnership model shaped Blankfein's values, how he fought to protect it through relentless turbulence and why stewardship of an institution's soul is the hardest leadership challenge of all.