Merrill Lynch was one of the best sales ever by a corporation.
And Merrill Lynch uniquely understood that people have different life priorities at different stages of their life.
from Merrill Lynch and bring it back to South Central Los Angeles.
of Merrill Lynch for many years.
One is Merrill Lynch.
As well as at Merrill, again, I was dealing with a special niche of people, high-net-worth individuals, individuals
William Henry Merrill, now this is not the Merrill Lynch Merrill.
And I'm merrily clicking along, and in the middle of slide four or five, all of my email notifications from the night before start bonging up
where we had Merrill Lynch, AIG and Lehman Brothers all going down at the same time.
He worked at Merrill Lynch.
There was Merrill Lynch, there was Lehman Brothers, there was AIG, and suddenly, the blood stopped circulating. Credit is the lifeblood of the economy.
working in private banking for Merrill Lynch, and then was at Bank of America.
So I often joke that Merrill Lynch got a two-for-one for 18 years.
have come my way at Merrill Lynch by sitting in a high-net-worth office, helping clients diversify their stock portfolios.
And someone asked me to submit an application at Merrill Lynch.
has worked out to be a nice starting point for Merrill and me to get started on Food 52. I met a lot of people. I had a sense of how to start a company.
I mean, that's how bad Merrill Lynch was.
And lo and behold, I started working at Merrill Lynch and I literally evolved that into a career.
I took those skills of being able to sell-- because I was in sales at Merrill Lynch-- I took those skills and translated them
And the funnest thing that we've done with this work is Bank of America Merrill Lynch has built what's called face retirement.
The names I used was Erik Weisz, Brian Merrill, they're all in my book, the names I used.
They have the redwoods on Wall Street shaking. Merrill Lynch is married to Bank of America.
I mean, this all started with the Merril Collection in Toronto, which is the largest public science fiction reference library in the world, started by Judy Merril ,
but segmenting them by what stage they were in, the example being Merrill Lynch.
And it was probably around the Great Recession that we experienced when Bank of America came in and bought Merrill Lynch,
And again, I look back on my career at Merrill Lynch.
When I took that leap of faith-- and that's what it was-- when I left Merrill Lynch and moved to Bank of America
I was at that game as a fan, or as an employee of Merrill Lynch and kind of conducting business.
And how do we go up against the B of A, Merrill, Chase, others in the financial services industry like Fidelity, and show up differently and show our not-for-profit heritage
It was acquired, I think, by Merrill Lynch.
But if I had been able to talk to the CIO of Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, you know, blah, blah, blah all of those, Iíd wanna know how they use information to
Wall Street collapsed. Wall Street collapsed, Merrill Lynch was sold, Lehman Brothers went out of business. Car sales collapsed, too. In fact, for the first nine months of that
And right there at the top the Inbox was an email, personally, from the President of Bank of America, Merrill Lynch Asia-Pacific, one
If you had told me in that moment, right-- Bayer, AIG, Washington Mutual, Wachovia, Merrill gets rescued, Lehman doesn't, Madoff, $50 billion Ponzi--
So what we actually found by doing some archival research is that the person who claims to have originated the problem is a mathematician called Merrill flood.
Miller, as always, is tremendously contrarian and he's buying things like Countrywide Financial, Merrill Lynch, AIG.
And I say to people, if that doesn't turn you on, go to work for Merrill Lynch and trade stock, because you'll
And it turns, if you look back at it, if B of A had bought Lehman then Merrill would have gone.
And as I was nearing the end of writing this book, I came across this amazing quote by Welsh writer Merrily Harpur.
have branched out. And, so, I have worked with executives at, Merrill Lynch, Accenture, Mattel, Los Alamos National Laboratories, and also a wide variety of entrepreneurs.
Presenter: We're thrilled to have you. And we're, first of all, sorry that Merrill couldn't join us. I know she's off doing more important things than coming to Google.
She can invest her career in a fabulous company that, you know, turns out to be Enron or Merrill Lynch or a company that disappears. So it's awfully helpful for both members of