{"id":1916,"date":"2026-04-27T22:28:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/04\/27\/most-startup-failures-arent-product-problems-theyre-ego-problems\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T04:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:01:08","slug":"most-startup-failures-arent-product-problems-theyre-ego-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/04\/27\/most-startup-failures-arent-product-problems-theyre-ego-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Most startup failures aren&#8217;t product problems. They&#8217;re ego problems."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most startup failures aren&#039;t product problems. They&#039;re ego problems.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2048892189976244703\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most startup failures aren&#039;t product problems. They&#039;re ego problems. Originally posted on X<\/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-1916","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\/1916","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=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2194,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}