Shahreer Zahan is the founder and CEO of Adroit Education, an education consulting service and mentorship program that has fundamentally changed how Bangladeshi students access top American universities. Since 2017, Adroit has helped students secure over $100 million in scholarships from institutions like Princeton, Stanford, MIT, and Yale, while maintaining a near-perfect success rate across […]
Registration is open now. You can register by filling out the form below or going here. "First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us" — Henrik Karlsson Hello everyone, we're hosting an FS Talk, our flagship entrepreneurship lecture and networking event, on 28 February 2025. The event will feature a talk by Talukder […]
This week’s FS weekly features some fascinating stories across founder lessons, why Bangladeshi conglomerates should pay attention to Dhaka’s growing entrepreneurship scene, an analysis of the new travel agency ordinance 2026, and an interview from our archive with IFA Consultancy co-founder Yusuf Sultan. All links are below. 9 Practical Takeaways From Our Interview with JoulesLabs […]
On January 1, 2026, Bangladesh's government published amendments to the Travel Agencies (Registration and Control) Ordinance, 2026. Issued by presidential order, the ordinance arrives after at least three online travel agencies collapsed between 2024 and 2025, allegedly defrauding customers of hundreds of crores in ticket payments. The government earlier published a draft of the same […]
The Dhaka-based hosting platform joins a small but growing list of providers making the viral AI agent easier to deploy. OpenClaw has become 2025's breakout open-source project, surpassing 100,000 GitHub stars within two months with demos of an AI agent that can actually control your digital life through Telegram or WhatsApp. But getting it running […]
Bangladesh has built its economic backbone on the strength of its conglomerates. From ACI to PRAN-RFL to Walton, these diversified business houses have demonstrated remarkable resilience and staying power. The conglomerate model has served us well. In many ways, it is a superior business model. It diversifies risk across multiple sectors, accelerates organizational learning, and […]
Last week, we published a wide-ranging conversation with Arifur Rahman Naim, co-founder and CEO of JoulesLabs, where we explored his unconventional path from a village near Kuakata to running a 25-30 person engineering agency. The interview covered everything from his personal journey, his take on building enduring institutions, the mechanics of partnership, the reality of […]
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