{"id":108858,"date":"2026-02-18T09:27:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/i-got-laid-off-and-used-my-severance-money-to-launch-a-startup-heres-why-it-felt-like-less-of-a-gamble-than-pursuing-an-mba\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:27:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:27:30","slug":"i-got-laid-off-and-used-my-severance-money-to-launch-a-startup-heres-why-it-felt-like-less-of-a-gamble-than-pursuing-an-mba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/i-got-laid-off-and-used-my-severance-money-to-launch-a-startup-heres-why-it-felt-like-less-of-a-gamble-than-pursuing-an-mba\/","title":{"rendered":"I got laid off and used my severance money to launch a startup. Here&#8217;s why it felt like less of a gamble than pursuing an MBA."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Perry, 40, was laid off in 2022.Courtesy of Sam Perry<br \/>\nSam Perry thought an MBA was like a cheat code for success in the corporate world.When he got laid off, he decided to spend\u2026 [+4235 chars]<a href='https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/laid-off-severance-money-pay-launch-startup-or-mba-2026-2' target='_blank'>read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Perry, 40, was laid off in 2022.Courtesy of Sam Perry Sam Perry thought an MBA was like a cheat code for success in the corporate world.When he got laid off, he decided to spend\u2026 [+4235 chars]read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_thumbnail_ext_url":["https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69821515a645d11881888ba6?width=851&format=jpeg"],"post_views_count":["40"],"_jetpack_related_posts_cache":["a:1:{s:32:\"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb\";a:2:{s:7:\"expires\";i:1782208332;s:7:\"payload\";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:108980;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:106851;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:107155;}}}}"]},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-make-money"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}