For people who’ve shut down a startup or walked away from a business idea, how did you handle the identity shift afterward?

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Following. Stepped away from a business this week at significant loss due to the business partner.

It's hard. Basically ego death to go from employee to founder and back again. If I had to do it over again, I would have taken way more time off between closing down and going back to work again. I was not ready for it.

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