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Larry Fink

Larry Fink

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About Larry Fink

Larry Fink is the Chairman and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest asset management firm with over $10 trillion in assets under management. He founded BlackRock in 1988 and has shaped it into the dominant force in global investment management.

Career Highlights

  • BlackRock CEO (1988-present): Built the world's largest asset manager
  • Aladdin Platform: Created the industry-leading risk management system
  • ESG Investing: Influential advocate for stakeholder capitalism
  • First Boston (1976-1988): Pioneered mortgage-backed securities

Notable Positions

On AI's Economic Impact

At Davos 2026, Fink emphasized that AI diffusion is the key challenge:

"The real question is how the models, the data, and the infrastructure spread more evenly to create surplus everywhere."

On AI Transforming Finance

"Things that would take 12 hours to compute now takes minutes for us, processing $14 trillion of other people's money with hundreds of thousands of different mandates. We could not function at this scale without AI."

Key Quotes

  • "AI diffusion determines whether benefits are shared."
  • "Technology democratization transforms economies."