Greg Smith - Wall Street Insider | Former Goldman Sachs Executive

On March 14, 2012, more than three million people read Greg Smith's bombshell Op-Ed in The New York Times entitled "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs." The column immediately went viral, becoming a worldwide trending topic on Twitter, drawing passionate and angry responses from politicians, business leaders, commentators, and the public. Today, Smith educates audiences about the danger the breakdown in trust between banks and their clients pose for global capital markets and shares his insights into how ethical behavior and big business can co-exist.
For more than a decade, Smith rose from intern to analyst to sales trader at Goldman Sachs, with clients controlling assets of more than a trillion dollars. Later into his tenure, he started noticing that the firm would put profit before principle, focusing on making money rather than on the best interest of their clients. Smith felt the firm had veered so far from the place he joined out of college, that he could no longer in good conscience identify with what it stood for.
Smith chronicled his full story in his book, Why I Left Goldman Sachs. In it, he details his personal journey with the firm, taking readers inside the world's most powerful bank and shows the evolution of Wall Street into an industry riddled with conflicts of interest and a profit-at-all-costs mentality: a perfectly rigged game at the expense of the economy and society.
Smith is a graduate of Stanford University.
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[@MrArlenBrazill]

Dear Interviewer. I understand that being the host and remembering questions must be very difficult, but it would behoove you to recognize when the interviewee has something interesting to say and let him speak. Great guest, thanks for having him on.

[@Aavaify]

Precisely!

[@thabomonethi7426]

7:17 min, Noooo, the interviewer cut off the interesting part. He literally switched the topic.

[@marissatamayo3699]

I always thought that the banking system is a sea of sharks who only want to ripe off unattentive swimmers. Greg Smith has the courage to stand up for himself. In the financial world the ethics has to change to serve the interest of people and not only to rip off the client's money.

[@esonon5210]

Can the interviewer let the man speak?

[@mick947]

What a shame so few people view this video, I hope they read his book. It's why the west is in such economic and political trouble...you only need a few greedy men to start the rot. And why does the interviewer interrupt at every strategic moment, Greg nearly gets to the end of his explanation and just before he does..in comes the interviewer! He must be bbc trained...let's try and sensationalise things and keep the interview fast moving!