{"id":2352,"date":"2026-06-07T16:14:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/06\/07\/stop-chasing-a-unicorn-that-needs-constant-outside-money-build-something-that-pays-you\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T04:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:30:05","slug":"stop-chasing-a-unicorn-that-needs-constant-outside-money-build-something-that-pays-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/06\/07\/stop-chasing-a-unicorn-that-needs-constant-outside-money-build-something-that-pays-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop chasing a unicorn that needs constant outside money. Build something that pays you&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stop chasing a unicorn that needs constant outside money. Build something that pays you this year and still stands in ten.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2063655862405824701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop chasing a unicorn that needs constant outside money. Build something that pays you this year and still stands in&#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-2352","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\/2352","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=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions\/2402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}