Case Studies

Eight books, four of them with someone else's name on the cover

Six are on Amazon. Two are being written right now.

The work so far

The Viral Genius Institute writes books for founders, and I write my own. Three client books are published: AI Inventory Management for WATR, The Offshore Team Deathtrap for Nir-Yu, and Elkridge Path for Elkridge Advisors. A fourth, Income First for The Execution Lab, is in progress. Under my own name there are three more, plus Unopposed, which I'm writing now.

8Books
4Written for clients
6Published on Amazon
2In progress

Which books has the Viral Genius Institute written for clients?

Four. Each one carries the client's name, because it's their idea and their story. My job is getting it out of their head and onto the page.

Cover of AI Inventory Management by Eduardo Ortiz Ramirez

AI Inventory Management

Pioneering the Future of Retail Operations with Artificial Intelligence

Client: Eduardo Ortiz, CEO and Founder, We Are The Robots, Inc. (WATR)

Co-author · April 2025 · 186 pages

How retailers use AI to forecast demand, restock on their own, and run a tighter supply chain. It opens with the 2020 toilet paper shortage.

See it on Amazon →

Cover of The Offshore Team Deathtrap by Luis Derechin

The Offshore Team Deathtrap

Stop the Cycle of Failed Projects and Wasted Resources

Client: Luis Derechin, CEO and Co-Founder, Nir-Yu

Ghostwriter · October 2025 · 312 pages

Why the offshore team that was supposed to save money ends up costing more. And the system Luis built to fix it, which he has used across more than 200 companies.

See it on Amazon →

Cover of Elkridge Path by Patrick Rogers and Robert Indries

Elkridge Path

Client: Patrick Rogers and Robert Indries, Principals, Elkridge Advisors

Ghostwriter · June 2026 · 309 pages

A step-by-step roadmap to real wealth. It starts with running your personal balance sheet like a business.

See it on Amazon →

Income First

Client: Abel Osorio, Managing Director, The Execution Lab

Ghostwriter · In progress

Building a business in the right order, with the income first.

What books have I written under my own name?

Three are published and one is in progress. They all make the same argument: whoever names the thing gets to own it.

Cover of Unopposed: Design a Personal Category That Only You Can Own, by Fernando Labastida

Unopposed

Design a Personal Category That Only You Can Own

In progress

How to design a personal category that only you can own.

Cover of The Startup Book by Fernando Labastida, with forewords by Joe Pulizzi and Christopher Lochhead

The Startup Book

How to Write a Book That Designs a New Market Category & Positions You as The Leader

2024 · 219 pages

Number one Amazon bestseller in Global Marketing. Why a book beats a funnel. Forewords by Christopher Lochhead and Joe Pulizzi.

What's in it →

Cover of Nearshore Marketing by Fernando Labastida

Nearshore Marketing

How Nearshore Providers Can Leverage Digital Marketing to Enter the U.S. Market

2017

How Latin American tech firms break into the U.S. market.

What's in it →

Why does a founder need a book?

Because a book is the one place your idea gets said in full, in your words, with your name on it. People quote it. And so do the AI engines.

At the Viral Genius Institute the book comes after the hard part, which is finding the One Unforgettable Idea the founder already has. A book built on that idea stands apart from everyone else in the category. A book built without it just adds to the Sea of Sameness.

Where do you start?

The free Profile. Twelve questions, about fifteen minutes, spoken out loud. You'll get back a plan that names your genius and drafts your category in your own words.

Start talking — free, 12 questions, ~15 min

Know a founder sitting on a gold mine he isn't exploiting?

Send him this page. Every client the Viral Genius Institute has ever had arrived because somebody standing next to the founder saw it before the founder did.

Written by Fernando Labastida, founder of the Viral Genius Institute and creator of the Viral Genius Framework.