Good morning! AMD competes with Nvidia, Waymo gets ready to expand, and a Goldman Sachs exec almost left on her way to the top. Have a mindful Monday.
- Speed bump. In 2016, Asahi Pompey was preparing to reach a career milestone: becoming a partner at Goldman Sachs. The firm's then-chief compliance officer had been working toward this moment since joining Goldman a decade earlier. And Pompey had set her sights on Goldman at 25, when as a junior attorney at Cleary Gottlieb she helped advise the bank on its 1999 IPO.
"Partner at Goldman Sachs is the crown jewel," she says. But that year, she found out, she didn't make it. Colleagues from around the world, whose trust she'd gained advising on regulatory pressures and deal stressors, consoled her and encouraged her to try for the partnership again. Still, Pompey almost gave up on her goal. "It was a low point in my career, and I considered leaving the firm," she says.
