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From Customer Service to CEO: How Waqar Younis Built Ferio Solutions Around Quality, People and Trust

A customer-service professional’s journey from managing healthcare operations to building a Pakistani outsourcing company serving businesses across the United States.

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Waqar Younis

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Failure Story

Rise and Fall of Myspace: A Pioneering Social Media Platform

Myspace did not disappear because people stopped wanting social media. It fell because it prioritised advertising over user experience, moved too slowly and allowed a simpler competitor to redefine the market it helped create.

Tom Anderson · Myspace

Technology · 5 min read

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Startup Story

The Engineer Who Learned to Sell: How Dmytro Horilyk Built DrugCard Into a $1 Million Global Business

Dmytro did not build DrugCard because he understood sales from the beginning. He built it by listening closely to customers, admitting what he did not know and learning the commercial skills required to turn a technical solution into a $1 million global business.

Dmytro Horilyk · DrugCard

HealthTech · 10 min read

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Startup Story

How Abdul Sami Janjua Built Ferio Solutions One Client and One Reputation at a Time

Abdul did not grow Ferio Solutions by competing on cost alone. He built trust through consistent execution, stronger systems and client relationships designed to last beyond a single project.

Abdul Sami Janjua · Ferio Solutions

Business · 10 min read

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Failure Stories

Postmortems that feel more reflective than archival.

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Failure Story

Rise and Fall of Myspace: A Pioneering Social Media Platform

Tom Anderson · Myspace

Technology · 5 min read

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Failure Story

Why LedgerBase Closed Even After Early Customer Validation

LedgerBase found real users, but it never solved the deeper problem of sticky usage. That gap turned early validation into a much weaker signal than it first appeared.

Samir Ben Youssef · LedgerBase

SaaS · 8 min read

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Failure Story

Why MarketLoop Shut Down After Chasing Scale Before Margin

MarketLoop did not collapse because nobody wanted the product. It collapsed because operations, refunds, and geography expansion broke the economics before the company could recover.

Adaeze Nwosu · MarketLoop

E-commerce · 9 min read

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Startup Stories

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Startup Story

The Engineer Who Learned to Sell: How Dmytro Horilyk Built DrugCard Into a $1 Million Global Business

Dmytro Horilyk · DrugCard

HealthTech · 10 min read

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Startup Story

How Abdul Sami Janjua Built Ferio Solutions One Client and One Reputation at a Time

Abdul did not grow Ferio Solutions by competing on cost alone. He built trust through consistent execution, stronger systems and client relationships designed to last beyond a single project.

Abdul Sami Janjua · Ferio Solutions

Business · 10 min read

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Startup Story

From Setback to Startup: How Thabiso Mntshali Is Building a Safer Marketplace for Human Skills

Thabiso did not build Xperoc because the path was easy. He built it because he saw skilled people being overlooked, clients being exposed to fraud, and an opportunity to make human services safer, visible and accessible.

Thabiso Mntshali · Xperoc

Business · 11 min read

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From Customer Service to CEO: How Waqar Younis Built Ferio Solutions Around Quality, People and Trust

The latest written episodes from the publication.

Rise and Fall of Myspace: A Pioneering Social Media Platform

The Engineer Who Learned to Sell: How Dmytro Horilyk Built DrugCard Into a $1 Million Global Business

How Abdul Sami Janjua Built Ferio Solutions One Client and One Reputation at a Time

Postmortems that feel more reflective than archival.

Rise and Fall of Myspace: A Pioneering Social Media Platform

Why LedgerBase Closed Even After Early Customer Validation

Why MarketLoop Shut Down After Chasing Scale Before Margin

Growth stories with better spacing, rhythm, and clarity.

The Engineer Who Learned to Sell: How Dmytro Horilyk Built DrugCard Into a $1 Million Global Business

How Abdul Sami Janjua Built Ferio Solutions One Client and One Reputation at a Time

From Setback to Startup: How Thabiso Mntshali Is Building a Safer Marketplace for Human Skills

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How David Afolabi Grew BuildrAI by Shipping in Public

How Emeka Obi Built LogiPath Around Last-Mile Density

How Fatima Ibrahim Built EduVault Through Audience, Structure, and Trust

How Kwame Mensah Built FarmTrace by Going Field Second

From Idea to Impact: How IntellChromatics is Future-Proofing Businesses

Bridging African Talent with the World: How Yolre is Revolutionizing Art and Culture

Founder stories

From Customer Service to CEO: How Waqar Younis Built Ferio Solutions Around Quality, People and Trust

The latest written episodes from the publication.

Rise and Fall of Myspace: A Pioneering Social Media Platform

The Engineer Who Learned to Sell: How Dmytro Horilyk Built DrugCard Into a $1 Million Global Business

How Abdul Sami Janjua Built Ferio Solutions One Client and One Reputation at a Time

Postmortems that feel more reflective than archival.

Rise and Fall of Myspace: A Pioneering Social Media Platform

Why LedgerBase Closed Even After Early Customer Validation

Why MarketLoop Shut Down After Chasing Scale Before Margin

Growth stories with better spacing, rhythm, and clarity.

The Engineer Who Learned to Sell: How Dmytro Horilyk Built DrugCard Into a $1 Million Global Business

How Abdul Sami Janjua Built Ferio Solutions One Client and One Reputation at a Time

From Setback to Startup: How Thabiso Mntshali Is Building a Safer Marketplace for Human Skills

More from the publication.

How David Afolabi Grew BuildrAI by Shipping in Public

How Emeka Obi Built LogiPath Around Last-Mile Density

How Fatima Ibrahim Built EduVault Through Audience, Structure, and Trust

How Kwame Mensah Built FarmTrace by Going Field Second

From Idea to Impact: How IntellChromatics is Future-Proofing Businesses

Bridging African Talent with the World: How Yolre is Revolutionizing Art and Culture