Jamie Dimon de JPMorgan faced death and realized that he had no regrets – how his point of view changed after emergency heart surgery

The 69 -year -old JPMorgan CEO became the face of the American bank during his career for several decades – and was even at some point, the Savior of Wall Street. It is well known to navigate the almost unscathed bank by the 2008 housing crash and for its skilled actions to help support the American financial system.

But about five years ago, life gave him a raw affair.

After having already removed the throat cancer a decade before, Dimon experienced acute aortic dissection, or a tear in the inner layer of the main artery of the body and had to rush to the hospital. The condition is rare – only about nine people for 100,000 experience it every year.

“I felt like someone had stuck a knife in my heart,” he said in an interview with the old Wall Street Journal Journalist Monica Langley Office hours: commercial edition.

However, as a long -standing leader of a Wall Street icon, Dimon, faced with his possible disappearance, first thought of his business.

Dimon called his wife Judith Kent before launching out in surgery and asked him to call the JPMorgan Advocate General and the Head Director of the Board of Directors to say “exactly” to them which did not go with him so that they could act in an appropriate manner. The survival ratings for the procedure were around 50 to 50 and, taking no chance, Jpmorgan appointed CO-PDG in case he was to die.

But Dimon, despite the chances, was by his own apparently calm account and even thanked the nurses and the doctors preparing to operate it – he then bought them a new refrigerator and a disinfected machine as a thank you gift.

Life after surgery

When he emerged from the procedure after more than eight hours, Dimon began to live more deliberately, although he said that he felt no big regret or the desire to move his life path.

“I love what I do, and that hasn’t changed,” said Dimon.

Despite the fear of health, Dimon did not slow down by a long. He has a penchant to wake up before dawn and read five newspapers before diving at work and, from last year, there was a squash. The same goes for his professional life. In 2023, Dimon supervised the acquisition by JPMorgan of First Republic Bank, which increased its deposits by $ 92 billion and gave it a significant increase in shares.

Last year, Dimon resumed his plans to move away from the role of the CEO for the next five years. He now has no final calendar to resign, he told Langley, but said he could remain president after leaving the first job.

He will retire, he said, “When they are ready and it’s time for me to leave – or a combination of the two.”

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