Ilya Marritz
Ilya Marritz covers business for WNYC.
Lehman's Last Hours Remembered: "It Was Surreal"
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
New York, NY –
HOST: When Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy exactly one year ago, most of the company's 25,000 employees lost their jobs.
29-year-old Lauren Carson worked at Lehman's headquarters on 49th Street and 7th Avenue for six years.
CARSON: I started there as a mortgage analyst and near the peak of the mortgage financing boom I moved over to interest rate derivative sales.
HOST: Avi Yashchin is also 29, he was a loan manager.
YASHCHIN: At Lehman all day I sat at a computer and I traded credit default swaps, a lot of spreadsheets, a lot of numbers. I really really enjoyed it. I had a great time.
HOST: Now Carson and Yashchin work together at a green energy startup Yashchin founded, Clean Edison.
Both say they didn't believe the company could ever fail. But when in the final days, Yashchin says, work became very, very weird.
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