When I sold my company to Twitter, everyone around me celebrated it as the ultimate success—the pinnacle achievement. There was champagne, headlines, and endless congratulations. But what no one ever tells you is what happens after the fanfare fades. You are left with a strange silence.

An Exit is much more than a financial transaction; it's a profound personal shift. It involves losing the rhythm that defined your life, the identity you built, and the daily connection with the team you poured your heart into. I quickly realized that the hardest part wasn't sealing the deal, but learning who I was without my startup.

Writing about my EXIT became my way of processing that change and being completely transparent about the powerful questions that follow:

• Who am I now? Once you’ve "made it"—once you've hit that major milestone—how do you find your next driving force? What does success truly mean beyond the headline?

• An Exit is not closure, it’s a reinvention. The financial success it brings merely opens the door to a new, vital quest for purpose and meaning. It's the challenge of building a new legacy.

• The Exit Heroine: The journey after the sale is often far more complex, humbling, and ultimately rewarding than the challenging years spent building the company.

I share my personal experience to inspire you to reframe the conversation around entrepreneurial success. The Exit is not a finishing line; it’s the courageous start of an entirely new and essential chapter of personal and professional reinvention.