It's not really easy or fun, because you often end up with white knights swarming you. He didn't say anything that you didn't say, he just used fewer words. Yo

It's not really easy or fun, because you often end up with white knights swarming you. 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.