Valyuu CEO Ferhat Topuz on building a multi-sided platform in the circular economy and taking investor calls on a train station floor

Start to scale. Startup and Scale-up Founder Stories.

English - March 27, 2023 07:00 - 46 minutes - 31.6 MB
Entrepreneurship Business startups scale-ups entrepreneurship founders leadership tech business rotterdam delft netherlands Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed

Previous Episode: Techgrounds MD Abdessamad and participant Katia on opportunities in tech for underrepresented talent

Next Episode: [April Fools episode - created by Chat GPT 🤗] Stealth founder Rebekah* on building better humans

Ferhat is the CEO and Co-founder of Valyuu, the circular economy marketplace to sell and buy pre-owned goods, like smartphones and macbooks. With first hand experience from T-mobile and a first venture in b2b refurbishment, he started the company in January 2021.

Valyuu joined Techstars and in March 22 they raised a first investment with ten prominent angel investors. Valyuu has been growing rapidly, so Ferhat is currently raising to support the next stage.

In this episode, we'll cover the following topics:

Building a multi sided platform in the circular economy;The value of a startup accelerator;Taking investor calls on a train station floor… ;-)

Links mentioned:

People: Ferhat Topuz, Jingwei Ren, Arvin Esterabadi, Thomas Mensink, Laurens Hamerlinck, Leonie Timmermans, Stefan van den Berg, Anna Brandt, Noor van BovenCompanies: Valyuu, 2Hearts Community, T-Mobile, Techstars, Golden Egg Check, ABN Amro, Afterpay, SwapfietsOther: Careers at Valyuu, Ferhat in an investor call at Amsterdam CSMedia: Altin Gun - Halkali Seker