@Atenov_D: Citadel quants earn $500K+/year and get paid to do nothing for 2 years when they quit. This Stanford PhD walked away an…
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Nimit Sohoni left a high-paying Citadel quant role to build next-generation voice AI at Cartesia, competing with ElevenLabs, highlighting the trade-offs between quant finance and AI research.
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Citadel quants earn $500K+/year and get paid to do nothing for 2 years when they quit. This Stanford PhD walked away anyway Nimit Sohoni got his PhD at Stanford, cracked Citadel Securities, then left before ChatGPT launched because he saw what was coming in AI - he now builds next-generation voice AI at Cartesia, competing directly against ElevenLabs on latency > you will watch 57 minutes of the most honest comparison of quant finance vs AI research: garden leave contracts, extreme secrecy culture, U-shaped job security, and why work-life balance is actually better at a hedge fund than an AI lab in 2026 Bookmark & watch - then ask yourself if $500K and 2 years of paid vacation is worth giving up the thing you actually want to build.
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