The NYC Partnership threw a party — but no one really showed up.
A who’s who of the New York City business community were no shows for a Tuesday meet and greet session with socialist democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani.
The list of New York City-based CEOs that declined the Partnership’s invitation includes Jamie Dimon, the nation’s top banker and chief of JP Morgan, the nations largest bank; Steve Schwarzman, the CEO of private equity powerhouse Blackstone; Brian Moynihan, the head of Bank of America, the nations second largest bank; Larry Fink, the CEO of Blackrock, the worlds largest asset manager; and David Solomon, the CEO of investment banking giant Goldman Sachs.
Most publicly pleaded “scheduling conflicts.”
But “what is this guy going to tell us that we don’t already know?” is how someone close to Solomon described the situation.
Those sentiments were pretty universal among according to sources