When Jamie Dimon was wheeled into the operating room for emergency heart surgery, he didn’t know whether he would make it out—what he did know was that he had no big regrets in life.
As he turns 70 on Friday, the JPMorgan CEO can safely say he’s had a distinguished career. He has become the face of American banking over his decades-long career—and was even at one point, Wall Street’s savior. He is well-known for navigating the bank nearly unscathed through the 2008 housing crash and for his deft actions in helping prop up the U.S. financial system.
