The Entrepreneurship Stories You Never Hear: Introducing Our New Series Exit Interview
The Stories That Don't Make Headlines
A new limited series about what entrepreneurship actually looks like
Pick up any business publication, scroll through LinkedIn, or listen to most entrepreneurship podcasts, and you'll hear the same kinds of stories: The founder who slept on couches before selling for billions. The "overnight success" that took ten years. The triumphant exit that made every sacrifice worth it.
Those stories aren't wrong. They're just incomplete.
The Other 99%
For every headline-making exit, there are hundreds of stories that don't get told:
A founder stepping down because the company needs different leadership
A CEO deciding to shut down rather than keep burning money and morale
An entrepreneur walking away from what they built because success and fulfillment turned out to be different things
These stories are quieter. They're often more instructive. And they almost never get shared.
Why We Made Exit Interview
We started Exit Interview because these untold stories matter.
Founders often make decisions in isolation — believing they're the only ones weighing growth against sustainability, values against expectations, vision against reality.
The truth is messier than the highlight reel. Building takes a toll — on relationships, health, identity. Sometimes the bravest move isn't pushing through. It's knowing when to let go.
What You'll Hear
In this limited series, I sit down with founders and first-time CEOs to talk about the end of their journey — not just the beginning:
The decisions they're proud of (and the ones they regret)
What they learned about themselves when everything was on the line
The real cost of building something from nothing
How they knew it was time to step away
Who This Is For
Founders wondering if they're alone in the hard parts
First-time CEOs thinking about how to build companies that outlast them
Anyone curious what leadership really looks like behind closed doors
Listen Now
The first episode of Exit Interview is available now. Because the best leaders aren't just building — they're learning. And the most honest lessons often come at the end.
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