{"id":8015,"date":"2025-06-14T06:26:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T00:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=8015"},"modified":"2025-06-14T06:26:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T00:56:54","slug":"growth-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/14\/growth-4\/","title":{"rendered":"growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the last 7-8 years of our entrepreneurial journey, I have seen many of my friends&#8217; startups peak and go bust. While the founders did make some personal wealth, the company suffered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Building a company is like raising a baby; it has its journey and shape. One cannot overfeed it to walk faster. The momentum is short-lived. People who join you are for the wrong reasons and alignment hangs towards their incentives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is easy to ruin something with culture not getting preserved and in most instances with growth, it takes a back seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last 7-8 years of our entrepreneurial journey, I have seen many of my friends&#8217; startups peak and go bust. While the founders did make some personal wealth, the company suffered. Building a company is like raising a baby; it has its journey and shape. One cannot overfeed it to walk faster. The momentum &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/14\/growth-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;growth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[980],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8016,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015\/revisions\/8016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}