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I am the co-founder & president of Carsala, a venture funded startup that will revolutionize how people buy cars. I am a husband, father of two and a soccer nut.
Cleantech, Computing, Information Technology, Internet
Location:
Berkeley, CA
Interested in:
Advising startups, Brainstorming, Career advice, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Helping friends, Internships, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup, Starting a company
Schools:
Queen's University, University of California System - Berkeley
FULL BIO
I was an 11-year-old boy in Turkey when I started programming in BASIC on my Sinclair ZX Spectrum (an early PC). In a shocking turn of events, about ten years later I graduated from Queen’s University in Canada with a Computer Science & Math double degree.
I started my career at a start-up in Canada as a software designer where I built core components of their flagship product and helped the company grow from sub-ten to 120 and thru to a successful IPO (TSE:BWC) . I was responsible for a lot of their web development in Perl and (later) Java. I also helped them start their European operations and got to live in the UK for ~6 months.
I moved on to become a management consultant at Deloitte and built web properties for Fortune 500 such as Morgan Stanley, Kraft and Bell Canada as well as a few start-ups who could afford us.
Later on, I co-founded and sold a small online career services company - in a very busy span of 18 months. In the meantime I also did some work at AT&T Canada where we rebuilt their online invoicing.
I moved to the Bay Area in 2006 to do my MBA at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley which I finished in 2008. During my MBA, I interned at eBay Motors with a great group of people where I led a study of their global product strategy. Most of my second year and until committing to Carsala full-time, I worked at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, a venture capital firm in San Francisco.
I look to the future with much excitement as we build a great company at Carsala.
New online media startup headed up by the founder of PayPal, Max Levchin. Backed by Mayfield Fund, Blue Run Ventures, Khosla Ventures and the Founders Fund.
