India, June 7 -- In a brutally honest post, a former Indian startup founder opened up about the harsh reality of transitioning from building a business to struggling to land a job. Taking to Reddit, he revealed that he was once the founder of a food and beverage startup, but now he is struggling to get a call back from employers.

In an anonymous post, he revealed that he had co-founded a healthy food startup with two friends. "Managed every part of the business ourselves from marketing, customer support, operations, finance, compliance and content like every other person starting up. We were bootstrapped, learned everything on the fly and kept it running as long as we could," he said.

However, their dream soon hit a ceiling, and without...