{"id":"evt_36a6df080381","title":"UGLY TALK X LUMINARY: THE FOUNDER TRAP AND THE ILLUSION OF PROGRESS","date":"2026-02-17","timezone":"America/New_York","start_time":"18:30","time_of_day":"evening","venue":null,"location":{"basis":"unresolved","likely_area":null,"likely_area_granularity":null,"evidence":null},"description":"This Ugly Talk explores one of the most common and least discussed challenges in entrepreneurship: the founder trap. When founders spend all their time working in the business instead of on the business, activity can start to feel like progress, even when it’s not. Being busy becomes a comfort zone, and real leverage gets postponed.","access":{"free":null,"application_required":null},"audience_roles":["founders"],"audience_orientation":"nontechnical","company_stage":null,"interaction":["content"],"topics":["venture"],"modality":"in_person","meal_context":"none","series":null,"mentions":[],"sources":[{"id":"nextnyc","class":"newsletter","publisher":"nextNYC","first_observed_at":"2026-02-09T12:45:56.0000000Z","last_observed_at":"2026-02-16T12:45:28.0000000Z"}],"discovery":{"first_party":[],"newsletter":["nextnyc"],"provider":null},"basis":{"audience_roles":{"founders":"observed"},"topics":{"venture":"inferred"},"audience_orientation":"inferred","company_stage":null,"interaction":"observed","modality":"default"},"canonical_url":null,"first_seen":"2026-02-09T12:45:56.0000000Z","last_seen":"2026-02-16T12:45:28.0000000Z","observation_count":2}