The CEO of Blackstone says in his book when he interviewed for jobs on Wall Street as a young graduate that
Goldman Sachs said they liked him but were worried he was a little too much his own person
Morgan Stanley told him to change his personality, and that he could not be his own opinionated, proactive self.
He went on to create Blackstone, a firm that would become larger than both
It just seems implausible this is what we are made of, essentially, nanotechnology about a billion years beyond anything we can design or make ourselves.
I grew up believing no discipline had a monopoly on truth, so I studied them all. From biotech labs to boardrooms, I chased the through‑line:
how does raw discovery become everyday value?