Ask HN: I don't want to be a founder anymore

He didn't say anything that you didn't say, he just used fewer words. Your original comment:

> if I had a serious prospect of ending up with genuine fuck-you money, and all I had to do to get it was keep doing what I was already doing and gut it out for a few more years, then that is precisely what I would do

In short: suck it up. You used more flowery language and a perhaps gentler delivery, but your message is the same.

> But whom, really, do you imagine it helping, to choose to act this way?

I'm of the opinion that a lot of people should be told to suck it up a lot more than they're being told today. My close friends and I often tell each other to suck it up, or equivalent, and it's not being contemptuous -- it's, for us, a reminder that life is actually pretty good and these are first-world problems.

The OP's phrasing, "I don't want to be a founder anymore", seems especially egregious for this forum. Not "I'm burnt out", or "how do you keep pressing on?", but "My successful startup is being bought and I don't want to be a founder any more". It would be like visiting a forum for college-aged NBA hopefuls and posting, "I'm about to sign a contract worth millions with the Kings but I don't want to be a professional basketball player anymore". It's almost intentionally crafted to be inflammatory.

Sure, fuck it, quit. Line up a new job at a big enterprise shop with lots of process and 9-5ers, tell them you'll start in 6 months. Spend that time exercising, enjoying your hobbies, and doing things with your wife/family/friends.

This board is filled with people who fetishize entrepreneurship, the responses are going to slant that way, take them with a grain if salt.

Hope everything works out for you.

I did some in the first year of uni with a floor mate. Two sober.

When I was on it. I got the feeling as if I was in a prison, and started feeling like I was being experimented on. I got super paranoid and I'm bought I can fall asleep. Tripped for hours in my bed and my eyes were open, though they felt as if they were closed. I was told every now and then I would sit up like the undertaker from WWE and ask how do I get of mushrooms. Lol

Then apparently I went down and upstairs like 10 time. Reaching bottom I, I'd want to come back up. They wanted to get me out of the room but it just made me feel like I was being taken out for an experiment.

After a while, they tried to make me realize I was just tripping. We got downstairs and I yelled okay.. I get it.. I'm tripping balls.

I left out a lot of the details but, it was embarrassing that entire year since people knew I had a bad trip. I felt as if I might have said or done shit I did not remember too.

So, in summary, place, people, time, mental state and stability are all factors to be considered.

Btw on the comedown I was super introspective but could not differentiate it from a placebo.

The point of the original message of mine is to realize that there are no Soma pills (Brave New World reference). Nothing works for everyone. We just need to realize this and not suggest something potentially dangerous to someone who is clearly in a bad mental state at the moment.

OP you'll get through this. Diet, exercise, jogs, meditation will take you a long way. Also, tell your wife everything. She is your wife, you oughta be in it together. Also... if she doesn't get it then don't be upset; anger starts from an expectation.

I wish you the best of luck.

P.s I am going to delete this message after a couple of days since my story is too specific and I want to maintain some kind of annonymity.

Edit: so from my description it should be obvious that I am a socially awkward, introvert who is super self conscious. This is one reason it did not work for me. Think of psychedelics as breaking a mirror of the existence. It is really really ducking intense. I was better off doing it though. My point still stands. I am going to try microdosing when I can.

The mentality of the misshapen, I suppose.