I want out. How do you give up on something successful? If it ruined your life and happiness? I can't anymore. I thought I wanted it bad enough. I don't know what else I might do. But 4 years of pain is finally too much. It's like killing my own baby

The problem we picked was technically way too hard and beyond my depth. As a tech-cofounder I've been getting three hours of sleep a night because every problem I fix causes three other unexpected ones.

I am a CTO Co-Founder of a failed startup of 4years. What job can i get now? I can code but don’t want job as purely a coder. I can do sales but don’t want a pure sales job. What the hell do I do?

Woke up painfully at 10:30. Worked a bit. Ate from 1pm to 3:30pm. Had a nap from 3:30 to 4. It’s 4 and I don’t have the energy to do anything. What happened to me?

My startup launched with significant hype. After a few months I could see clearly that we were not going to get any traction. I still went out and raised money to try to make it stick – some from naive investors. Turns out I was right, we folded.

We hit success and it can really be huge. I am too depressed to get out of bed many days. Faking it for a few months now. Has anyone ever come out of this? How long? Doing everything in my power to take care of myself but this is frighteningly long

Somedays I look around at the success others are having and wonder what the hell I'm doing wrong. Am I not hustling hard enough or do I just suck at what I'm doing?

I've created a profitable business, low 7 figures revenue, growing 30% a year, but I'm overweight, back issues, migraines. Burnt out and hard to do anything.

Just shut down a service that I've poured my heart into for 4 years. I am sad. The weather is so beautiful outside. The sun is shining. People are laughing. Dogs are barking. Think I'll take a walk outside.

I think Hackathons are just a tool to take advantage of entrepreneurs. They make it seem fun but the reality is that the pressure and unpaid work that you do is a toxic combination.

I finally gave up on my startup after three years. It was the only thing I've ever wanted to do and I don't even have that anymore… I just don't want to feel so worthless for the rest of my life

Shit sandwich. We're gonna go from 4 people to 2. I'm gonna be the one to tell them. Feels like a failure.

Help: My startup is great but Im suffering. I'm a sole founder and been in and out of depression. I don't think it's supposed to feel this way. Maybe I'm not suited for this. Shutting down is impossible to conceive of. Where do I draw the line?

I feel unable to set boundaries with my cofounder. The startup I'm in started as a fun side project and I didn't expect it to grow so quickly. All the talk of commitment has me terrified but I don't want to let him down.

A company I built went from making 1-2 million a year for eight years to 30k this year. I'm letting the company fold. I'm afraid to become an employee for someone else and let the founders profit off my ideas while I get a pat on the back. Sadness.

Brought some cofounders in right away to an idea. They were sold on it! Great, let’s get to work, two of them were working full time. They were slacking, I got very bossy so I kicked them off the team. We’re still in idea mode.

I respond to challenges with "go big or go home". Sometimes I think that it is all just to cover how fucking insignificant I feel

I feel defeated. I'm sick of chasing clients for payment, worrying about business, & always being a few months from total collapse. YET, I can't imagine going to work for someone else again. Am I just weak or do others feel like this sometimes?

First-time founder in a small town. I'm worried I won't be able to make the leap from raising $25k-$50k checks from angels (which I'm pretty good at) to raising $3M all at once from seed/micro VCs. Everything is taking so much longer than I thought.

I'm resting and vesting for one more year. Sold startup and have a good salary, but what I do doesn't move the needle. It is depressing. I have side-projects and earn some money with them. Want to jump ship, but I have too much invested there.