depression

“I had my first major depressive episode when I was running my first company in my mid-twenties, and it was triggered by three things happening at the same time. The first was I ended up getting divorced from my first wife. Our relationship blew up. The second …”

“At a much earlier age, perhaps, than you were prepared for, you were thrust into a position of being a parent, taking care, being a caregiver. And that's an important statement that you just made, because while it's not the only root cause of mental illnesses,…”

“But the reality is most people struggle in one way or another. And most Founders actually do struggle with, whether it's depression, anxiety, ADD, and actually the flip side of that, which is pretty interesting, is sometimes it's part of what allows them to be…”

“And I have talked to many founders who left their company, and there's like, I'd say half of them fall into a depression because their identity is the company.”