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What David M. Solomon says in public, and what their own SEC filings show they own.

David M. Solomon

David M. Solomon

Chairman & CEO · The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

CEO since 2018, Chairman since 2019. Joined as partner in 1999. Rose through investment banking. Also moonlights as DJ "D-Sol". Hamilton College BA.

@davidsolomon
What they own

Ownership

Skin in the game
18/ 70
Level 1Steward

Solomon owns about 0% of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., worth $138.1M at the last close.

SEC filings
50
Stake 153,433 reported shares ≈ 0.0% of shares outstanding — no 13G on file, so an estimate 4/35
Founder Not assessed — whether they founded the company has not been researched Not assessed
Tenure No start date on record, so tenure scores nothing 0/10
Track record Not assessed — their prior companies have not been researched Not assessed
Direction Exercise-and-sell — 3,742 shares ($3.5M) sold, all covered by option exercises; the underlying stake is flat 4/15
Discipline No late Form 4s in 50 filings 10/10

Nobody has researched this person's career yet, so founder and track record are left out of the score and of the total above.

Score = stake band (35) + founder (15) + tenure (10) + track record (15) + 12-month direction (−10…15) + filing discipline (10). An axis we have not researched is left out of the score and of the total it is shown over. Every input links to a filing or to our own research; the bands are ours.

Reported · Forms 3, 4, 5 153,433 Every lot on the person's own filings, as of May 1, 2026
Last open-market trade Sale · $3.2M May 1, 2026 · 3,470 shares at $930.70 avg · no 10b5-1 plan
Paper trail On time No Form 4 filed outside the two-day window; form 144 flagged below
Reported The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. shares Forms 3, 4 and 5 · as of 2026-05-01
0100K200K300K 2017201820192020202120222023202420252026 May 2026: net −3,470 shares across 1 movement (largest: sale −3,470)Apr 2026: net +15,205 shares across 2 movements (largest: exercise +34,017)Jan 2026: net −272 shares across 1 movement (largest: sale −272) 153,433

Dots mark the months the activity below moved the line. Hover one for that month's net move, how many movements it folds and the largest.

How the stake is held
SecurityHeld viaShares
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per shareDirect137,262
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per shareSee footnote16,171
Reported as of 2026-05-01153,433
Held directly
89%
Vehicles
1 trust or entity
Last filing
May 5, 2026
Activity · last 12 months 4 events folded from 6 filing lines · Every filing on EDGAR ↗
DateTypeWhat happenedSharesPriceValueNote
May 1, 2026 Sale Open-market sale across 2 lots, $930.43–$931.25 · Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share −3,470 $930.70 avg $3.2M no 10b5-1 plan
Apr 28, 2026 Exercise Option or RSU conversion · Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share +34,017 — —
Apr 28, 2026 Tax Shares withheld for tax · Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share −18,812 $937.81 $17.6M
Jan 29, 2026 Sale Open-market sale across 2 lots, $938.84–$939.41 · Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share −272 $938.92 avg $255K no 10b5-1 plan
Every issuer David M. Solomon files as an insider of
CompanyRoleReportedBeneficial% of class
GS GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC This page Chairman of the Board and CEO 153,433
2026-05-01		 — —

Reported is every lot on the person's own Forms 3, 4 and 5 — direct and through trusts. Beneficial is the figure stated on the latest Schedule 13D/G cover page, which can exclude shares the person disclaims and include options exercisable within 60 days, so the two are never added together.

Paper trail

50 filings under CIK 0001693709 · captured 2026-09-05 · All filings on EDGAR ↗

On the record with shareholders

Earnings calls

  1. Q2 2026 Jul 14, 2026 Solomon's argument was that this was not a lucky tape but a franchise finally compounding on itself. He opened on the records — $20.3bn of revenues, $20.98 of EPS, a 25.5% ROTE — and then spent the call explaining the machine underneath them: clients chasing scale have pushed large-cap M&A volumes up 90% in the first half, the AI build-out is pulling capital needs out of technology and into energy, data centres and infrastructure, and Goldman sits at the front of both. His recurring word was flywheel: an advisory mandate in a boardroom becomes financing, hedging, capital-markets execution, and eventually a wealth-management relationship, and he pointed to nearly 900 referrals from investment banking to wealth since the start of 2025 as evidence rather than theory. He was deliberately unromantic about durability — he said he is not smart enough to rule out recalibrations in the next six to eighteen months and that the cycle will not move in a straight line — but argued the firm is far more diversified than in past investment booms, so the base it is growing from is different. On AI inside the firm he refused the headcount-cut framing, saying it changes how work gets done but will not replace the people who drive the business. Asked what is not yet good enough, he named ultra-high-net-worth wealth: a fragmented market where Goldman invested later than it should have and is now accelerating. Read the call · 10 quotes →
In their own words

Podcasts, interviews & articles

10 recorded appearances

2026

Podcast The a16z Show · Feb 2, 2026 · 36 min

David Solomon & Ben Horowitz on Building Organizational Resilience & Navigating Macro Uncertainty

Solomon and Ben Horowitz compare notes on running organisations through macro shocks - what resilience means structurally rather than rhetorically, and how leaders should communicate under uncertainty.

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2025

Podcast Long Strange Trip (Sequoia) · Dec 18, 2025 · 57 min

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon: What Startup Founders Get Wrong About the CEO Job

With Brian Halligan, Solomon contrasts the founder-CEO job with running a 45,000-person public institution, arguing founders underestimate how much of the role is talent allocation and constituency management rather than product.

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