A Goldman Sachs MD quit for a 12 month residency at Google

Why work in finance when you could be learning to replicate the brain? If you're a managing director at Goldman Sachs with a reasonable chance of making partner, why would you leave? Most people in finance would be intensely thrilled to get a sniff at a Goldman partnership. Unless, of course, something even better was on offer. For David Ha, former co-head of Japanese rates trading at Goldman Sachs, and a managing director at 32, the better alternative was a residency at Google Brain, Google's 12 month programme in California to jump-start careers in machine learning.