India, Jan. 25 -- A Delhi-based entrepreneur has shared a moving account of quitting his high-paying Google job to work on his own startup, and how it affected him mentally. Rohit Sakunia, founder of ArtE Mediatech and co-founder of InViz AI, opened up about how the transition reshaped his confidence and priorities.

In an Instagram post shared earlier this month, Sakunia wrote that moving from being a "Google guy with a great job" to an unemployed founder with a failed startup caused his sense of self to collapse faster than he was prepared for. The loss of professional identity, he said, stripped away his ego and left him grappling with who he was without the role he had built around.

According to Sakunia's LinkedIn profile, he was a C...