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Police reports confirm that Sarvshreshth Gupta, the 22-year-old Goldman Sachs investment-banking analyst who was found dead last month in San Francisco, committed suicide by jumping. Bloomberg News reports that surveillance video showed an individual falling from an apartment building into a parking lot about 4:20 a.m. on April 16, according to an incident report released by the police June 9.
In an essay posted by on the website Medium, which has now been removed, Gupta’s father wrote about how his son was dealing with stress at work before his death. Sunil Gupta said his son “felt burnt out” due to late working hours.
Gupta, a University of Pennsylvania graduate, who was originally from New Delhi, worked as a tech/media/telecom analyst in Goldman’s San Francisco office. He began his career at Goldman last fall. He quit his job in late March, but he rejoined the firm a short time later.
“Then, soon after quitting, he changed his mind,” Sunil Gupta wrote. “I desired that he should complete his one year at Goldman Sachs, learn something about corporate life and then decide,” he wrote. “Under pressure from me, he rejoined.”
The company let Gupta come back, gave him several days off to recharge and offered him access to counselling services, Business Insider reported. It wasn’t long until he again faced “hard, continuous work, no breaks, no sleep and no respite,” his father wrote.
On April 16, Gupta reportedly called his father from his San Francisco office at 2:40 a.m. “He calls us and says, ‘It is too much. I have not slept for two days, have a client meeting tomorrow morning, have to complete a presentation, my VP is annoyed and I am working alone in my office,’’ according to the essay. A few hours later he ended his life.
Gupta attended the Delhi Public School in New Delhi, after which he completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by an MBA at the Wharton School of Business. At Penn, he made the dean’s list and was a member of Eta Kappa Nu, an electrical and computer engineering honor society. He was a fan of soccer and the television shows “House” and “Family Guy,” according to his Facebook profile. While back pain limited Gupta’s ability to play sports in college, he enjoyed marathon games of chess with his father, according to the essay.
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