How One Entrepreneur Discovered the Cure for His Burnout
After losing his entrepreneur mojo, a founder decided to get away from everything.
In 2013, I had what could only be called a . I was the founder and CEO of a $7 million company. It was a sports-travel firm called Ludus Sports that organized hospitality packages to the world’s largest sporting events and counted Olympic athletes and Fortune 500 companies as clients. To the outside, I looked like a . But in truth, I struggled. One year prior, during the London 2012 Olympics, that I hadn’t recovered from. I lost my entrepreneurial mojo and was afraid of taking . I’d been building this thing for 10 years, and the thought of doing it for another 10 terrified me. So I sold my company and stayed on as president.
