{"id":2627,"date":"2026-07-21T21:43:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/07\/21\/a-co-founder-you-met-at-a-hackathon-is-not-a-co-founder-that-is-a-stranger-with-shared\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T21:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:43:03","slug":"a-co-founder-you-met-at-a-hackathon-is-not-a-co-founder-that-is-a-stranger-with-shared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/07\/21\/a-co-founder-you-met-at-a-hackathon-is-not-a-co-founder-that-is-a-stranger-with-shared\/","title":{"rendered":"A co-founder you met at a hackathon is not a co-founder. That is a stranger with shared&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A co-founder you met at a hackathon is not a co-founder. That is a stranger with shared enthusiasm. Real partnership gets tested in the bad months, not the launch week.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2079683597955682770\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A co-founder you met at a hackathon is not a co-founder. That is a stranger with shared enthusiasm. Real partnership&#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-2627","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\/2627","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=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}