• 13 Jun 2012 at 3:17 PM

Which Goldman Sachs CEO “Was Known To Challenge Subordinates To Impromptu Wrestling Matches”?

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Was it:

a) Lloyd Blankfein
b) Hank Paulson
c) Jon Corzine
d) Stephen Friedman
e) Gus Levy
f) John Whitehead
g) John Weinberg
h) Sidney Weinberg
i) Marcus Goldman
j) other

Hopefully you answered D, Stephen Friedman, as that was the answer we were looking for, per today’s New York Observer piece on financial services employees who feel more comfortable onesies than suits. We can see where you might’ve thought Paulson, but no.

“I wrestled as well as I could wrestle, and if I lost, that was my own fault,” KKR’s Henry Kravis once told an interviewer about what he learned from wrestling. “I had nobody to blame but myself.” Apollo Global Management co-founder Josh Harris wrestled at the University of Pennsylvania before deciding that making his 118-pound weight class didn’t allow either the time or calories for the old “college experience.” Former Goldman Sachs chief executive officer Stephen Friedman, an AAU champion who wrestled at Cornell, was known to challenge subordinates to impromptu matches. Former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain was a college wrestler, though Mr. Novogratz pointed out that Mr. Thain, now CIT Group CEO, wrestled at the Division III level.

So, 1. On Thain’s behalf– how dare you, Novogratz and 2. Obviously we need to know more about these impromptu bouts on the floor of Friedman’s office. If you were one of the his unenthusiastic sparring partners, do get in touch.

Fortress Chieftain Mike Novogratz Wrestles with Olympians, Youth…and Wall Street [NYO]

Comments (27)

  1. 1
    Posted by Guest | June 13, 2012 at 3:27 PM

    J- Jer Sandusky

  2. 2
    Posted by pazzo83 | June 13, 2012 at 3:28 PM

    I didn't realize there were answer options beyond "C". Fuck.

    - guy who just took CFA Level 1

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | June 13, 2012 at 3:28 PM

    Front-runner for worst comment of the day.

  4. 4
    Posted by Guest | June 13, 2012 at 3:31 PM

    J- Jon Winklereid

  5. 5
    Posted by Devin Banks | June 13, 2012 at 3:31 PM

    Oh God, you’re having your way with me! Your back is like a barrel of snakes!

  6. 6
    Posted by Guest | June 13, 2012 at 3:32 PM

    J- Neel Cashcarry

  7. 7
    Posted by Guest | June 13, 2012 at 3:37 PM

    the one with the jewish last name

  8. 8
    Posted by Alt_EST | June 13, 2012 at 3:37 PM

    "Mr. Novogratz pointed out that Mr. Thain, now CIT Group CEO, wrestled at the Division III level," and now he's an executive at the Division III level.

  9. 9
    Posted by VonSloneker | June 13, 2012 at 3:46 PM

    Some snob always has to bring up "…Division II Level."

    - Scottie Pippen

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | June 13, 2012 at 3:53 PM

    You know when the meetings ended? When someone pinned Friedman and not a second sooner.

  11. 11
    Posted by Guest | June 13, 2012 at 3:53 PM

    That's a clown question, bro

  12. 12
    Posted by guestapo | June 13, 2012 at 3:54 PM

    Tough but fair.

  13. 13
    Posted by Dave&Charles Koch | June 13, 2012 at 3:59 PM

    ahhahahahahahha

  14. 14
    Posted by Dan Gable | June 13, 2012 at 4:17 PM

    D3 wrestling is like sleeping with a fat chick – its alot of fun until all your friends find out.

  15. 15
    Posted by Laxbro | June 13, 2012 at 4:17 PM

    This is news? Who doesn't wrestle with their bros after raging in Murray Hill?

  16. 16
    Posted by Guest | June 13, 2012 at 4:18 PM

    You spelled blow wrong.

  17. 17
    Posted by Ken Lewis | June 13, 2012 at 4:38 PM

    I've never even heard of Impromptu Wrestling. Probably some gay, asian-influenced, scripted, bastardization of real wrestling. Not in my day, and not on my watch! At NationsBank back in the day, a match could break out at anytime and you wouldn't even know that shit was coming. Now that's REAL wrestlin.

  18. 18
    Posted by Cosmo | June 13, 2012 at 4:48 PM

    Effin fantastic. Here come the OWS protests demanding a Festivus for the Rest of Us.

  19. 19
    Posted by Guest4 | June 13, 2012 at 5:06 PM

    I know… "DIII Level"

    - Clyde Drexler

  20. 20
    Posted by Nittany Lyin | June 13, 2012 at 5:22 PM

    Victim 8? That you?

  21. 21
    Posted by CarriedInterest | June 13, 2012 at 5:28 PM

    It's not "impromptu wrestling," it's "horseplay"

    -J Sandusky

  22. 22
    Posted by Guest | June 13, 2012 at 7:25 PM

    Wrestling is for homosexuals and mexicans

  23. 23
    Posted by Guest | June 13, 2012 at 8:48 PM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr1w0V6d7u4&fe…

  24. 24
    Posted by Regular Guest | June 14, 2012 at 7:03 AM

    Didn't Hulk Hogan work for Goldman ?

  25. 25
    Posted by Zap | June 14, 2012 at 8:37 AM

    These Wall Street guys like to touch each others hineys!

    There I said it

  26. 26
    Posted by Spanish trader | June 14, 2012 at 9:38 AM

    Let go of me !

  27. 27
    Posted by Gay | June 14, 2012 at 1:31 PM

    That is gay. Not as gay as D III wrestling. But gay nonetheless.