I’m a former Goldman Sachs analyst who raised over $8.5 million for my fashion startup. Here’s how I realized finance wasn’t for me.

“When I looked at my fellow analysts, I could tell they enjoyed the job more — I had an inner e-commerce geek that needed to get out,” says Meg He.

Meg He is the cofounder of fashion startup ADAY. Photo: Bridget Badore

As told to Claire Turrell

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Meg He, cofounder of ADAY, about her business and career. It has been edited for length and clarity.

I’ve always had an entrepreneurial spirit and liked to set myself a challenge. At 15, I started selling vintage designer clothing on eBay. When I was applying to college, I applied to Merton College at Oxford University for economics and management as I was told it was the hardest course to get on to in terms of acceptance rate. But I did it. After graduation in 2008, I was hired as an analyst at Goldman Sachs.

At Goldman, I met my future ADAY cofounder Nina Faulhaber. We both have strong work ethics and hit it off immediately. After two years working at Goldman Sachs, we both started working for different venture capitalist companies, and I later worked for Poshmark before taking time off to return to the UK in 2014. Nina and I always stayed in touch and bounced business ideas off each other, and my move back…