Mike Santomassimo
The Steward
Legacy, values and the long now, leadership as care and continuity.
Santomassimo exhibits hallmark Steward qualities: his commentary is consistently anchored in disciplined capital allocation, margin trajectory management, and measured organic growth over opportunistic M&A.
“We're mostly focused on organic growth. The opportunity we have across each one of the businesses is just big, and that's what you've seen us really do now the last number of quarters.”
On M&A vs. organic strategyundated
“Our full year net interest income guidance is still fifty billion dollars — that's where we sat at the beginning of the year. It's progressing exactly as we thought it would.”
Defending NII guidance disciplineundated
“Like any investment, you've got to be really thoughtful and smart about how you prioritize the resources you put against it — and certainly across these large language models, there's a range of costs you've got to be really careful about.”
On AI investment disciplineundated
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