Harvard educated, corporate-career-dead at 42

Alexei Sorokin
3 min readApr 22, 2022

But it’s ok. I will just have to reinvent myself.

Cambridge, Harvard, Morgan Stanley, Silicon Valley, international experience. I could now be a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs at an office of my choice. London, New York City, Hong Kong. I could be a director at a big Silicon Valley company. I could be making a million a year, give or take.

But I blew it.

I detoured from the corporate world soon after I did my MBA at Harvard. Harvard MBA was like a virus or a bug that you make you itch. It makes you…

Alexei Sorokin

A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day. More here: https://linktr.ee/alexei.sorokin