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Ozan & Tuba Gözbaşı - Podcast

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA • ADVERTISING & MARKETING

How to Sell Your Product to Billion Dollar Companies | Ozan & Tuba Gözbaşı

Seedstars Global

03/03/2020

Who said your business partner cannot be your wife or husband? Ozan and Tuba wanted to access more freedom, more independence and work on a topic that they love. So, the couple dedicated their time to developing a last-mile logistics solution that optimizes routes for better fleet selection, order allocation, and sequencing. That is how their story started. It is one that gives us the perfect example of what can come to fruition when the unexpected happens.

One day, Ozan and Tuba found themselves pitching their startup Optiyol in the Seedstars World competition in Turkey, and the next thing they know, they are announced the winners! Next step, they travel all the way to Morocco to compete against all of the other winners from the MENA Seedstars local competition, and they win again! They prove that hard work and resilience can bring you really far.

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