Inexperience is seen as the weakest point of being a young entrepreneur. However, experience is not learned simply by living. At the same time, it can be obtained by learning from the books read, the movies watched, the theaters visited, in short, from the lives of other people.
The people mentioned in this article are young entrepreneurs who have taken their initiatives to the top at a young age by benefiting from the life experiences of other people as well as their own experiences and have been successful in the world and Turkey.
Nevzat Aydın
Nevzat Aydın and 2 of his friends founded Yemeksepeti.com in 2001. Having many ideas as young entrepreneurs, the team brought a different breath to this sector. There was no other example of this initiative, which saw the gap in the industry and received a commission only if an order was sent from the restaurant, without requiring a credit card.
Delivery Hero acquired all of Yemeksepeti.com’s shares in 2015, with a total valuation of $589 million. This acquisition was also the largest transaction in the global online food ordering industry. Nevzat Aydın still continues to work at Yemeksepeti.com as CEO.
Arzu Kaprol
Arzu Kaprol loved music in her high school years, but there was something she loved more: Fashion and design. While Arzu Kaprol was a young entrepreneur, she won her first award in 1995 at the Beymen Academia New Talents Competition.
Arzu Kaprol has been designing the women’s collection of the Network brand under Altınyıldız for eight years. It also sells Arzu Kaprol Home products in Linens stores, one of the Zorlu Holding companies. In addition, she designs special clothes for various institutions. Their designs are sold in their shops at home and abroad.
Cihat Dündar
Cihat Dündar stepped into entrepreneurship due to an incident that happened to him when he was a child. However, the foundations of being a fully-fledged entrepreneur were laid when he immigrated from Turkey to another place. In the first year of this change, Dündar locked himself in his room and read as many books as there were on personal development, marketing, organization, and plants.
When he went to the military, he saw the hair problems of women in the east. He prepared thousands of mixtures in the small R&D center he set up at home with the heater, scale, and beaker he bought from Tahtakale. This is how the hair removal product Bioder emerged.
In 2006, Dündar rolled up his sleeves for the men’s problem. Bioxcin shampoo and serum against hair loss met with consumers. With an annual turnover of 100 million TL, B’iota’s export revenue is around 1 billion dollars, which it aims to achieve in the next five years.
Kerem Çatay
Kerem Çatay founded Ay Yapım when he was 25 years old. In a short time, it became one of the biggest companies in the television world. Yaprak Dökümü, which he produced in 2006 when he was a young entrepreneur, became a turning point. Ay Yapım continued to rise with serials such as Aşk-ı Memnu and Liptan Kalbe in parallel. These series, which started in 2006 and were broadcast one after the other, carried Ay Yapım to the top among the producer companies with a turnover of 33.8 million liras in 2008.
The Ezel series, on the other hand, helped him become a brand. Ezel turned into a phenomenon in a short time and did not come down from the top of the rating list on the day it was published. Kerem Çatay cannot make an inference about the sector today because he says that every year brings new demands. He says the tastes of television viewers also change from year to year.
Sedat Kılıç
Sedat Kılıç founded Alse Makine when he was a young entrepreneur at the age of 21. In 2008, with the support of his teachers at the school, he developed the product he called Economizer. The reputation of the system, which saves up to 90 percent in the amount of gas used in welding machines, spread in a short time.
Alse Makine’s 2009 transaction volume is four million dollars. Today, many organizations from Aygaz to Renault, from Mercedes to Fiat use Kılıç’s Economizer. Kılıç continues to set an example for many young entrepreneurs.
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