# How the Ex-Goldman CEO actually invests his own money Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184/how-the-ex-goldman-ceo-actually-invests-his-own-money Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184/how-the-ex-goldman-ceo-actually-invests-his-own-money.md Podcast: [My First Million](https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184) Published: 2026-06-16T11:15:00+00:00 Episode link: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/HS9913842996.mp3 Audio file: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/HS9913842996.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/my-first-million-438184/episodes/how-the-ex-goldman-ceo-actually-invests-his-own-money Duration seconds: 3655 ## Resource Get our Investment Guide: https://clickhubspot.com/rgek Episode 834: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) sits down with former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blanfein ( https://x.com/lloydblankfein ) to talk about what he does with his money. — Show Notes: (0:00) Lloyd on Money, Day Trading, and Feeling “Rich” (3:52) Meeting Elon (5:23) What the worst traders have in common (9:54) Warren Buffett’s handshake deal (15:04) Lloyd breaks down his portfolio (20:41) Advice to young investors (23:09) biggest mistakes (25:54) Anxiety as a superpower (27:54) Family finances (31:35) Scarcity (40:46) The Goldman Obituary Test (43:53) Lessons from history — Links: • Streetwise - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/780438/streetwise-by-lloyd-blankfein/ — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury for banking across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/ Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trup… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/my-first-million-438184/episodes/how-the-ex-goldman-ceo-actually-invests-his-own-money/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184/how-the-ex-goldman-ceo-actually-invests-his-own-money.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.