A former Goldman partner reflects on being 'challenging to work with'
Frederick Baba, a trader at Jane Street and former Goldman Sachs partner. Courtesy of Goldman Sachs Former Goldman partner Fred Baba shared the goodbye note he sent colleagues. He left Goldman in 2023 to join Jane Street as a trader. He shared the note on LinkedIn. His letter offered candid advice for senior leaders and young professionals alike. 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 difficu...
