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Venture founder dissolves company to reclaim perception

After two years running a venture startup called Plexus, the author found their perception dwindling and their sense of self flattening due to the pressures of the venture incentive game. To counteract this, they dissolved the company, returned investor funds, and shifted focus to tutoring, coaching, and meditation. The author reflects on the difficulty of recognizing this perceptual degradation while working intensely and contrasts the rigid, linear thinking often imposed by corporate environments with a more holistic, multi-sensory experience of reality. AI

RANK_REASON The item is a personal reflection on the author's experience with a venture startup and their subsequent decision to dissolve it, offering opinions on perception and corporate culture.

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Venture founder dissolves company to reclaim perception

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