Most people expect inspiration to come from mentors or success stories. Mine came from a scammer. He wasnโt 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 โadviceโ that reeked of shortcuts, fake leads, recycled projects, shady subcontracting deals. Everything that turns good agencies into garbage. He called it โscaling.โ I called it rot. But hereโs what stuck with me: buried under his nonsense was a truth. Agencies like mine didnโt 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. Thatโs when it clicked. I didnโt 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 Iโm ever going built.