For most of the last decade, the story of artificial intelligence had a single geography. The labs that mattered, such as OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta AI, sat within a few miles of each other in the Bay Area. The capital that mattered came from the same handful of venture capital funds. The compute that […]
Bangladesh's tablet market continues to gain momentum as digital adoption expands across education, business, and entertainment. The growing reliance on online learning, hybrid work environments, digital content creation, and mobile productivity has increased consumer demand for high-performance tablets, with Samsung and Apple maintaining their leadership in the country's premium tablet segment. According to Md. Yousuf […]
We first covered Filament Engineering (Muspana) in 2017, when it was still a small solar and IPS business working out of a modest setup in Mohammadpur. Nearly a decade later, we sat down with its founder, Atiqur Rahman Sarker Sohel, again. The company today operates eight to ten operational wings, manufactures the country's only round […]
After a long time, we somewhat feel satisfied with this week’s newsletter. After a long break, we are back with a new long-form interview under our Art of Enterprise series. We have published three fascinating original stories, including one case study on organization design. In addition to that, we have brought back reading recs after […]
Walk into any room at Kaz Software's Dhaka office, and you won't be able to see what's on an employee's monitor. This isn't an accident of furniture or office design. It has been since Kaz’s first year. Wahid Choudhury, the founder, describes his own desk as an example: a wall sits behind him, and the […]
Atiqur Rahman Sarker Sohel is the founder and Managing Director of Filament Engineering Ltd (Muspana), a diversified conglomerate with business across solar, electronics products, and electrical infrastructure. Under his leadership, Muspana has become the country's only manufacturer of round conical electric poles, a pioneer in intelligent street lighting, and one of the top two or […]
Somewhere in Sirajganj or Bogura, probably around 2015 or 2020, a rickshaw puller did a calculation. A neighbour had switched to an easy bike, an electric three-wheeler assembled in a local workshop, powered by a lead-acid battery pack from China. The fuel cost was lower. The daily income was higher. Within a few years, hundreds […]
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