Goldman Sachs recognized that post-IPO it could not operate as a small private partnership and must grow with top-down strategic direction to make 1+1+1+1 equal more than the math adds up to.

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David Salman

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We've started to recognize that that we're not a small private partnership and you can't be a public company and not grow and have some form of top down strategic direction. Yeah. That really gets the whole thing making, you know, the 1 plus 1 plus 1 plus one equal, you know, more than what the math adds up to.

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Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Yearsa16z
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:05:59 PM

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