{"id":1845,"date":"2026-04-16T04:35:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/04\/16\/the-hardest-part-of-being-a-founder-isnt-the-80-hour-weeks-or-the-rejections-its-sit\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T03:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:50:11","slug":"the-hardest-part-of-being-a-founder-isnt-the-80-hour-weeks-or-the-rejections-its-sit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/04\/16\/the-hardest-part-of-being-a-founder-isnt-the-80-hour-weeks-or-the-rejections-its-sit\/","title":{"rendered":"The hardest part of being a founder isn&#8217;t the 80-hour weeks or the rejections. It&#8217;s sit&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hardest part of being a founder isn&#039;t the 80-hour weeks or the rejections. It&#039;s sitting in your car after a brutal investor meeting, calling your spouse, and pretending everything is fine. We talk about grit. We don&#039;t talk about the cost.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2044635809635270696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hardest part of being a founder isn&#039;t the 80-hour weeks or the rejections. It&#039;s sitting in your car after&#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-1845","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\/1845","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=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}