I quit Goldman Sachs after only a year. Here's how I knew leaving for a tech startup was the right career move.
I picked a weird day to quit — it was my 24th birthday and I called my boss to tell her I was leaving Goldman Sachs. This was after only one year as an investment banking analyst.
In middle school, this is A+'s on the report card. In high school, this is getting into a fancy college — Yale for me. In college, this is getting a prestigious job, like Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, or Google. At the time I knew nothing about tech, and I couldn't believe that a bunch of 20-somethings were building these businesses. I always thought you needed"pedigree" and experience first. I thought you needed to"work your way up the ladder."
So as one does, I'm scrolling Twitter and stumbled across a Jeff Bezos clip about customer obsession. I clicked on the poster's profile and saw"Founder and CEO, ." Meow is a NYC-based fintech startup that raised $22 million from Tiger, QED, and Lux. Who was this guy? For Bezos, he would regret not attacking the generational opportunity that accompanied the rise of the internet. For me, I knew every second I deferred my vision was a second wasted.
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