{"id":1480,"date":"2026-07-07T00:30:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/07\/07\/the-kindest-thing-a-co-founder-can-do-tell-you-fast-that-the-idea-isnt-working\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T00:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:30:43","slug":"the-kindest-thing-a-co-founder-can-do-tell-you-fast-that-the-idea-isnt-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/07\/07\/the-kindest-thing-a-co-founder-can-do-tell-you-fast-that-the-idea-isnt-working\/","title":{"rendered":"The kindest thing a co-founder can do: tell you fast that the idea isn&#8217;t working\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The kindest thing a co-founder can do: tell you fast that the idea isn&#8217;t working. Years of your life are worth more than any single idea.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2074289974246244412\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X (Twitter)<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kindest thing a co-founder can do: tell you fast that the idea isn&#8217;t working. Years of your life are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-x-posts","post_format-post-format-aside","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}