Hi, I'm Lynsie Campbell!

I'm a fellow founder who’s been through the wild ride of building a startup. I’ve also had to navigate the weird, confusing next part — the part no one warns you about. The part where you have no idea what you're going to do next.

After my first startup, I had no roadmap. No title, no team, no endless Slack pings — just me, a bunch of open tabs, and a serious identity crisis. I wrote my first book, This Better Work, to process all of it. And the more I shared, the more I realized other founders felt the same way.

Now I’m writing a new book — Post-Founder Purgatory: What Do You Do When Your Startup No Longer Exists?

It’s a collection of real, honest stories about what happens after — after the shutdown, the acquisition, the burnout, the quiet fade-out. But it’s not just a book about endings. It’s a guide to what comes next.

I’m structuring the book around the different paths founders take once their startup chapter ends. For each path, I’m gathering advice from founders like you who’ve lived it — how you made your decision, what the transition looked like, what worked (and what didn’t).

If you’re down to share, I’d love to include your experience. You never know — your story might be exactly what another founder needs to hear to figure out their next move.