{"id":1965,"date":"2026-05-03T23:05:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/05\/03\/every-founder-thinks-they-need-more-runway-most-need-more-revenue-stop-optimizing-for\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T04:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:10:07","slug":"every-founder-thinks-they-need-more-runway-most-need-more-revenue-stop-optimizing-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/05\/03\/every-founder-thinks-they-need-more-runway-most-need-more-revenue-stop-optimizing-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Every founder thinks they need more runway. Most need more revenue. Stop optimizing for&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every founder thinks they need more runway. Most need more revenue. Stop optimizing for fundraising. Start optimizing for profit.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2051075586496586015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every founder thinks they need more runway. Most need more revenue. Stop optimizing for fundraising. Start optimizing for profit. Originally&#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-1965","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\/1965","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=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2243,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions\/2243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}