Goldman Sachs Deck
When was Goldman Sachs founded, by whom, and what was its original business?
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Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869 by Marcus Goldman, a German immigrant, as a one-man commercial paper business in lower Manhattan — he bought merchants' short-term promissory notes at a discount and…
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