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When Runa returned to Bangladesh in the 1970s after building a successful career in Pakistan, she faced hostility and professional exclusion from sections of the local music industry.

A clean sale is not the same as a kept sale. A gift card can clear every check at the moment of purchase, from valid card to authorized payment and code delivered, and still turn into a loss weeks later. Gift cards are roughly four times more prone to cha

If you run partnerships at an employee engagement platform, you know the Monday meeting. Finance asks why reward costs came in over plan. Product asks why a brand the team has been promising employer customers for two quarters still isn't reliably in the

Put yourself in the buyer's seat for a moment. You sit through three employee engagement platform demos in the same week. The recognition flows look familiar: peer shout-outs, manager awards, milestone tracking, social feed. Then each demo gets to the red

Only 10% of employees say their organization has ever asked them how they want to be recognized. The recognition moment is designed for the recipient. The reward, mostly, isn't. That mismatch is the thing employee engagement platforms haven't fully solved

The global loyalty market is projected to grow from $80.92B in 2024 to $155.22B by 2029, a 13.4% CAGR. For loyalty platforms running a working domestic program, international expansion has moved from a long-tail bet to a near-term board ask. The roadmap n

Auth0 is about as ubiquitous to the auth space as Coca-Cola is to fizzy drinks. For most people with a technical background, it is usually the first name that comes to mind for user management, authentication and authorisation. I only wish this were a spo

Catalog isn't usually the redemption problem. The real leak is the payout form that appears after a member clicks "Redeem." 99.4% of rewards delivered through Runa are redeemed within 30 days. That number isn't just proof of a strong catalog. It's proof o

At Runa, we see thousands of reward redemption moments across loyalty programs, and one pattern keeps showing up: gift cards are essential, but they are not always enough. The quiet part many programs do not say out loud is that a gift-card-only catalog c

How confident are you that your next change won't blow up production? In traditional server-based systems, gradual rollouts and canary deployments are standard practice. In serverless systems, however, we too often treat infrastructure as magic black boxe