Jon Corzine, Steve Aoki and the Art of the Second Act on The Businessweek Show
The former MF Global chief and the chart-topping DJ talk about starting new chapters in their careers.
No two second acts are exactly alike, though they can look similar on paper. Wildly successful early careers can turn catastrophic, and not everyone wins redemption. Some people have the knack for failing upward, and others jump from one success to another. Second acts are often the stuff of ambition and opportunity, though they can just as easily be forced by circumstance. And like any change, that second act can turn out to be thrilling, calamitous or both.
Jon Corzine’s career has changed, drastically, again and again. As the boss of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. decades ago, he became the most important person at the most profitable firm in Wall Street history at one of its key moments. Just before Goldman went public, he was ousted by colleagues including his co-leader, Hank Paulson, in one of the industry’s most infamous coups. So Corzine transformed financial might into political power: He became a US senator, then the governor of New Jersey.