
- Jamie Dimon summoned JPMorgan staff back to the office at 9 p.m. on a Thursday night following a call from Bear Stearns CEO Alan Schwartz, in which he said he needed $30 billion. Dimon discussed on a recent podcast how he prepared his bank for the 2008 financial crisis when no one else saw it coming.
The 2008 financial crisis plunged everyone from CEOs of major companies to individual homeowners into a state of chaos—and JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon was in the trenches as well.