David Solomon’s father never told him what to do. When he was running down the road to turn left, his dad had a way of making him stop and think about why left was better than right—not by arguing for right, but by forcing his son to genuinely consider it first.
Forty-some years later, Solomon is running Goldman Sachs, and the same instinct his father gave him has become the frame through which he’s telling Goldman’s 2026 intern class to approach everything from career decisions to AI.
