{"id":1810,"date":"2026-04-11T18:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/04\/11\/most-unicorns-are-just-well-funded-mediocrity-with-great-timing-the-founders-you-wor\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T03:49:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:49:04","slug":"most-unicorns-are-just-well-funded-mediocrity-with-great-timing-the-founders-you-wor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/04\/11\/most-unicorns-are-just-well-funded-mediocrity-with-great-timing-the-founders-you-wor\/","title":{"rendered":"Most &#8220;unicorns&#8221; are just well-funded mediocrity with great timing. The founders you wor&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most &quot;unicorns&quot; are just well-funded mediocrity with great timing. The founders you worship built decent products during a money-drunk era. Take away the easy capital and 80% wouldn&#039;t survive Series A today.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2043030944152719864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most &quot;unicorns&quot; are just well-funded mediocrity with great timing. The founders you worship built decent products during a money-drunk era&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-posts","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}