When Frederick Baba left Goldman Sachs after nearly a decade, he didn’t send the typical farewell note on his way out the door.
The former Goldman partner — who left the bank to join the secretive quant-trading firm Jane Street in late 2023 — published a surprisingly candid reflection on LinkedIn this week, revealing that colleagues once considered him “challenging to work with.” He shared the goodbye note he originally sent to Goldman staff to mark two years since leaving the firm.
Baba — one of Business Insider‘s Rising Stars of Wall Street in 2020 — wrote that he believed colleagues had viewed him as difficult for years, and conceded they may have had a point.
“As I became more senior, I became effective at getting people to do as I say,” he reminisced, “but I noticed a chilling effect on outside ideas, making it harder to know if I was actually right.”
Read more about Baba’s candid advice for senior leaders and young professionals alike on Business Insider:
https://lnkd.in/eWBxDNMc
(Credit: Courtesy of Goldman Sachs)
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