The Goldman Sachs trader known for speaking up about racism is leaving the bank, according to a report
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"You'll be here trying to show up to be your best work self, and then at times you don't even know if it matters, right?" Baba said on the 2020 podcast episode."You're sitting in a Zoom call and you're talking about the thing you're talking about, trying to service your clients. But there's this backdrop and this, like, cloud hanging over you about all of the other things that are happening in the world.
At that time, Baba was a managing director on the firm's global markets team, where engineers teach machines to trade stocks, bonds, and derivatives. On that team of roughly 10, he was responsible for interest-rate products.Goldman's 2023 class of partnersBaba was born in Nigeria and emigrated with his family to New Orleans, where his parents taught at Tulane University. They later moved to Cincinnati before Baba left to attend MIT.
After graduating in 2010, he went to work for the Global Electronic Trading Co., known on Wall Street as GETCO. About four years later, he started at Goldman on a new team set up to trade stocks and bonds electronically.
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