Goldman Sachs Meeting in Bay Area Shows Appetite for Tech
BySan Francisco — On the surface, Goldman Sachs’s annual shareholders’ meeting on Thursday was a yawn.
The gathering drew no more than a few dozen investors and other attendees, half-filling a dimly lit auditorium in the tower that houses its San Francisco offices. All of its directors easily won re-election. And the meeting was done in just over a half-hour.
But it was notable that Goldman’s annual gathering was held here at all. It was, in a sense, the bank’s way of staking a claim in the heart of tech country, as Goldman fights to win its share of business from the boom that has lured billions of investor dollars and produced huge transactions…