. >> i will be chatting with retired chief executive bob benmosche. i traveled to spend time with this retired wall street titan where he owns a vineyard. >> we have a ways to go. >> and recounts how he turned around a company left for dead. >> i had a company with a value of zero. today it is almost $80 billion. >> all while dealing with a personal struggle. >> with this illness, i have nine months to a year to live. that's what i was told. and then they put me on this aggressive chemotherapy. i said i have an obligation to resign if i cannot handle the chemotherapy. >> robert was born in brooklyn in 1934. early in his childhood his father moved the family to the catskill mountains, but shortly afterwards, his father died of a heart attack, leaving his mother and three other siblings a quarter of a million dollars in debt and with a half completed hotel. from there, money, having enough of it, became a driving force in benmosche's life. soon after graduating from alfred university, he rose up the ranks of wall street's biggest firms, chase manhattan