• 05 May 2010 at 3:28 PM

Lloyd Wants You to Brag About Being a Goldman Client

By Zachery Kouwe

Goldman Sachs held a conference call for clients of the private wealth management unit this afternoon.

Lloyd Blankfein was on the call, as were several journalists who were no doubt leaked the call-in number and not thrown off as they usually are. As expected, the entire call seemed to be a nice advertisement for Goldman with Lloyd repeating most of what he said on Charlie Rose last week. This quote from the call pretty much sums it up:

“We don’t want people to just be happy to be with Goldman. We want them to be bragging.”

Tell that to IKB Deutsche Industriebank.

Comments (22)

  1. 1
    Posted by Dick Fuld | May 5, 2010 at 3:39 PM

    I want you to brag about being a Lehman client.

  2. 2
    Posted by LB | May 5, 2010 at 3:44 PM

    I want you to have “goldman sachs” tatoo’ed on your ass.

  3. 3
    Posted by Anonymous | May 5, 2010 at 3:53 PM

    Bragging about how your ripped their lungs out, shoved them back up their keister, and walked away?

  4. 4
    Posted by Mr. Awesome | May 5, 2010 at 3:54 PM

    Nanny nanny poo poo. I lost money with GS and you didn’t…

    How’s that LB?

  5. 5
    Posted by GetYourFactsStraight | May 5, 2010 at 3:54 PM

    IKB didn’t lose any money… IKB is a happy Goldman Client! ABN Amro lost the money and they weren’t a ‘client’!

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | May 5, 2010 at 3:58 PM

    beurk ! très gauche.

  7. 7
    Posted by Rasta Monsta | May 5, 2010 at 3:59 PM

    Shut the fuck up, Kouwe

  8. 8
    Posted by et al. | May 5, 2010 at 4:01 PM

    STEVE JOBS is a TAINT LICKER.

  9. 9
    Posted by et al. | May 5, 2010 at 4:03 PM

    he licks Lloyd’s TAINT.

  10. 10
    Posted by Charlie G | May 5, 2010 at 4:08 PM

    See I was a boxer and I made people lick my taint all the time…no big deal.

  11. 11
    Posted by Anonymous | May 5, 2010 at 4:20 PM

    I brag about being a Guerrerio Wealth Holdings client….

  12. 12
    Posted by Ed | May 5, 2010 at 4:22 PM

    There’s never an egg-timer when you need one. He’s done.

  13. 13
    Posted by Anonymous | May 5, 2010 at 4:24 PM

    http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2010/05/05/enron-on-broadway-meets-same-fate-as-its-namesake-only-without-indictments/

    ‘Enron’ on Broadway Meets Same Fate as Its Namesake

    “James Fuld, Jr., a producer of “Enron,” said the production never found a target audience, though it had tried in part to bring in business people. “It did not attract the Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan crowd—perhaps the Goldman Sachs testimony on television, people could see it for free,” said Fuld. The producer, who said that he is not a relative of Richard S. Fuld Jr., the former Lehman Brothers chairman and chief executive, also said the play was trying for a younger audience of 30- to 45-year-olds but instead attracted older, traditional theatergoers. “We were unable to target a specific customer,” he said.”

  14. 14
    Posted by Anal_yst | May 5, 2010 at 4:40 PM

    Kouwe, if you’re going to try to make a witty/sarcastic point, please know wtf you’re talking about..

  15. 15
    Posted by Anonymous | May 5, 2010 at 4:42 PM

    I brag all the time about knowing Anal_yst’s thoughts.

    -The Swami

  16. 16
    Posted by The Wall Street Journal | May 5, 2010 at 4:59 PM

    Zach, did you get this story idea from the WSJ live tweeting of the GS conference call on Deal Journal?

    The exact same quote was highlighted earlier today right at 1:28 p.m. : http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/05/05/live-blogging-a-goldman-client-conference-call/?mod=e2tw

    And then 2 hours later your little blurb shows up… Can you prove you received the conference call information to dial in and hear this first hand? (perhaps with a link to a screenshot?)

    -Just making sure you don’t get caught up in old bad habits…

  17. 17
    Posted by a guest | May 5, 2010 at 5:01 PM

    No, that doesn’t “pretty much sum” anything up.

    Hereby agree retroactively to criticism of ZK..

  18. 18
    Posted by Anal_yst | May 5, 2010 at 5:06 PM

    @Kouwe

    Are you completely daft? Serious question.

  19. 19
    Posted by a guest | May 5, 2010 at 5:27 PM

    @Anal_yst

    Nice use of an underused word.

  20. 20
    Posted by Jimmy | May 5, 2010 at 6:23 PM

    Wow, you really fucking suck Kouwe.

  21. 21
    Posted by Dear Mr Kouwe | May 6, 2010 at 5:25 AM

    Kouwe, if you’re going to play at being a financial journalist, it helps to what you’re talking about.

    Also, you need to remember that we come to Dealbreaker for its snarky, snide humour, not for hard-hitting analysis. And you deliver neither.

  22. 22
    Posted by Anonymous | May 6, 2010 at 6:01 AM

    Im Hiring blondes..

    HR Leader at Guerrerio Wealth

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