Alex Brogan
Investor. Founder. Writer.
About
Grew up in Perth, Western Australia.
Studied at the University of Western Australia, graduated valedictorian.
Played water polo for Australia.
Briefly worked at Goldman Sachs.
Built and sold Intelligence Age, an AI media company.
Co-founded Maple.
Scout for AirTree Ventures.
Built Faster Than Normal, a research library on how the most consequential people and companies in history actually made decisions.
Top 0.005% Spotify listener of Rufus Du Sol.
Live in San Francisco.
Writings
- Work Heartily, or Not at All
- Disruptive vs. Incremental
- How can some people get so lucky in life?
- Australia's Ambition Problem
- Australia's Fear of Excellence
- Ten years of therapy in one week
- Human flourishing
- Intelligence Is Not Unique
- The Intelligence Landing is Near
- The Runaway AI Train
- The AGI arms race
- Career things I'd tell my younger self
- Increasing returns to focus
- The high-return activity of raising others’ aspirations
- How you do anything is how you do everything
- Preparation kills anxiety
- Great leaders don't just manage people
- What trait do 9/10 billionaires credit for their success?
- What I learned at Goldman Sachs
- My (long) note on artificial intelligence
Investments
- BetterBrain
- Migrate Mate
- Superpower
- Matilda
- Solea AI
- OneMRI
- Adamo
- Maple
- Roam
- Lyngo AI
- Fourday AI
- Beehiiv
- Piris Labs
- Athyna
- Supercharge
- Natura
Bookshelf
Books I love and recommend.
- Four Thousand Weeks — Oliver Burkeman
- The Design of Everyday Things — Don Norman
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid — Douglas Hofstadter
- Against the Odds: An Autobiography — James Dyson
- Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World — Graham Allison & Robert D. Blackwill
- Poor Charlie's Almanack — Charles T. Munger
- The Beginning of Infinity — David Deutsch
- Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger — Peter Bevelin
- The Inner Ring — C.S. Lewis