"One thing that did cut through the exhaustion was a task I’d been anticipating for more than six years: writing the Facebook post in which I announce to friend

"One thing that did cut through the exhaustion was a task I’d been anticipating for more than six years: writing the Facebook post in which I announce to friends, former friends, frenemies, ex-girlfriends, college roommates, future wives, and family members that I was not in fact an obscure failure but a new, minor footnote in the annals of Silicon Valley startup successes." Amen. This has been personally the hardest thing for me about being a tech entrepreneur. My friends all assume that overnight I'm going to be the next Zuck (I'm not) and wonder why I don't have time for them. Let's take aside the fact that I'm a fairly privileged person, it doesn't negate the fact that putting my heart and soul into a startup, means many of my relationships have taken a back seat. That sucks, but you soon realize the relationships that are most important to you will ultimately wait.