<p>Bloomberg reports that Rana Yared, the Goldman Sachs partner who once spearheaded the bank's nascent cryptocurrency efforts, is leaving the Wall Street giant.</p> <p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-05/goldman-loses-crypto-czar-as-another-tech-partner-departs-bank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">As reported Wednesday</a>, Yared "played a key role in a group that invested the firm’s own capital in emerging tech companies, and helped drive big returns for the trading unit through that operation."</p> <p>But it was her work in building up Goldman's internal crypto efforts that were on display in a 2018 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/technology/bitcoin-goldman-sachs.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">New York Times profile</a>. She told the publication that "I would not describe myself as a true believer who wakes up thinking Bitcoin will take over the world."</p> <p>"For almost every person involved, there has been personal skepticism brought to the table," she was quoted as saying.</p> <p>In that interview, she spoke to the interest among institutional firms in the crypto space and commented that "[i]t resonates with us when a client says, 'I want to hold Bitcoin or Bitcoin futures because I think it is an alternate store of value.'"</p> <p>Yared was <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/goldman-sachs-partner-class-of-2018-2018-11-1027703636" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">named partner</a> at Goldman Sachs in 2018, having joined the firm in 2006.</p>