Lloyd Blankfein, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, became a billionaire through education after growing up in public housing in Brooklyn, sharing his bedroom with his grandmother or sister. At 16, he was accepted to Harvard after becoming class valedictorian at a high school on the brink of closure, launching his 12-year reign at Goldman Sachs. He champions education as the “great wealth equalizer” and the “real accelerator” for entering the middle and upper classes, opposing Peter Thiel’s vision of encouraging young people to leave college. Other leaders like Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and Anthropic cofounder Daniela Amodei share this conviction, believing higher education, particularly humanities, remains essential in the AI era.
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