This Is What Startup Burnout Looks Like

Watch out. The emptiness will sneak right up on you.

Joe Procopio
5 min readSep 8, 2022

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A few weeks ago, I was at a startup investor event — my first time getting back out into the local scene in ages — when I was introduced to a founder I’ll call “Brian,” by an investor friend of mine who had invested in the seed round of Brian’s company.

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Joe Procopio

Multi-exit, multi-failure entrepreneur. NLG pioneer & eService expert. Building TeachingStartup.com & GetSpiffy.com. Uncommon founder. More at joeprocopio.com