I get it. As an entrepreneur you get validation from customers, and you hold yourself accountable to them. The customer is the "authority". To be honest this

I get it. As an entrepreneur you get validation from customers, and you hold yourself accountable to them. The customer is the "authority". To be honest this is one, of many, reasons I prefer to find and talk to customers before I even start to build a product. Having people you can talk to and run ideas past and get feedback from makes you focus on not disappointing them and giving you some feeling of needing to be accountable. That all said, being an entrepreneur can be quite lonely and it is easy to get depressed, so you have to find ways to find balance for yourself and prevent it. I am actually reversed from you in that I find it actually easier being a founder than an employee, but in both cases you just need to find coping mechanisms that work for you.