Most people don't realise that startups will humble the shit out of you. One day you’re announcing a fundraise and maybe twelve months later you will run out of money. And your employees will see you clueless and your investors will think you dint execute well. Everyone who wanted to meet you and do podcasts will stop replying. You’ll run out of money, confidence, ideas, and sometimes all three at once.
The fear that you may look stupid someday because of entrepreneurship is real. You cant fight that but will have to survive to figure what kind of founder you become when there is nothing impressive left to show. Entrepreneurship eventually introduces everyone around you to the version of you that has no answers.