Why I Left Goldman Sachs

I sat down with Lucy Wark, a social scientist who started her career in consulting at McKinsey, before founding a sexual wellness brand called Normal & a career skills platform called Fuzzy, to talk about:
• My career story so far
• What ingredients like skills or attitudes have been most important early on in my career
• The biggest career transition I’ve made and what helped me take the step
• My favourite career frameworks
• and much more!

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WHO AM I?

If we haven’t met before - Hey 👋 I’m Alex—the human behind Faster Than Normal.

While I deeply despise bios, here are the highlights of my journey so far:

2015: Represented Australia in Water Polo at 17 years old

2018: Graduated as Valedictorian of my major at the University of Western Australia (1st in course across 3 units, 2nd in course across 2 units, 3rd in course once)

2019—2020: Youngest in graduate cohort at Goldman Sachs Investment Banking Division at 21 years old.

2021—2022: Worked for 1 year at the leading Growth Marketing Agency in Western Australia, Ammo Marketing.

2022—2023: Promoted from Business Development Representative to Account Executive in 4 months and then Head of Go-To-Market in 5 months at Zipline.io, a Series A B2B Healthcare startup.

2022—Present: Built an online community of 0.75 million incredible people in ~18 months.

2024: Sold my first business, The Intelligence Age, at 26.

These are merely the wins; believe me, the losses are plentiful, though not for a first date.

I’ll be sharing these—and more—along the way.

Faster Than Normal’s mission is to be a friend to the ambitious, a mentor to the becoming, and a partner to the bold.

We achieve this by sharing the stories, ideas, and frameworks of the world's most prolific people and companies—and how you can apply them to build businesses, wealth, and the most important asset of all: yourself.

The types of folks that read and watch Faster Than Normal are Fortune 500 executives, start-up founders, operators, professional athletes and creatives, and investors from Silicon Valley to Wall Street.

If that resonates with you, you’re in the right place.