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There's a version of success that looks exactly like what you aimed for, but doesn't feel like it. I spent close to ten years assuming that was the trade-off — that performing at a high level meant accepting it wouldn't feel good. It took losing all external structure to realise the problem wasn't the role, the company, or the ambition. It was how I was operating.

Most startups don't fail because of a bad product. They fail because a smart team couldn't execute together consistently enough to find out whether it worked. Great people self-organise. The problem is that they self-organise around different goals. The fix is the minimum structure that lets them execute together — a Minimum Viable Operating System.