When our startup Storya shut down after two years, we experienced the emotional whiplash familiar to many entrepreneurs. Our journey went from lofty dreams to pragmatic restraint almost overnight.

We both found our creative engines stalled once the intensity of our startup ended. Praveen stopped drawing and writing stories. “It just feels like an emptiness,” he shared. I have struggled with writer’s block for years, and the pressures of running a startup as founder and CEO didn’t help.