Linked in The Room

A corner of LinkedIn was ablaze with nostalgia over the weekend of February 23/24 as bank industry veterans flocked to read Euromoney’s interview from 1979 with John Gutfreund – at the time managing partner of Salomon Brothers – which we published as part of our exploration of our archive in our 50^th anniversary year. By the Monday morning nearly 11,000 people had viewed the post.

In the 1979 interview the late Padraic Fallon, then editor of Euromoney, described Gutfreund as the world’s most famous trader in probably the world’s most famous trading room.