The Scammer Paradox · AI Automation Society

The Scammer Paradox

Most people expect inspiration to come from mentors or success stories. Mine came from a scammer.

He wasn’t one of those fake gurus selling dreams. He was worse, the kind that tries to infect real businesses. A few months ago, he reached out with “advice” that reeked of shortcuts, fake leads, recycled projects, shady subcontracting deals. Everything that turns good agencies into garbage.

He called it “scaling.” I called it rot.

But here’s what stuck with me: buried under his nonsense was a truth. Agencies like mine didn’t have a real network. There was no place for honest operators to share deal flow, collaborate, or trade projects without ending up in some manipulative circle.

That’s when it clicked. I didn’t need his tactics, I needed to build the opposite of his world.

So, I created my space, not from admiration, but from resistance, to prove that you web agencies can scale without selling their soul.

The irony? He tried to corrupt my business. Instead, he inspired the cleanest thing I’m ever going built.

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