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Özkan Akkilic

Özkan Akkilic

Co-founder and CEO of Ablefy (formerly Elopage), the Berlin-based platform powering over 70,000 online businesses and €1B+ in transactions.

Aug 14, 2026

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#338 Özkan Akkilic - The CEO Behind 75,000 Businesses: "You Are The Blocker"

Aug 14 · 1h 5m

Darren Lee
Darren LeeHOST
24:31
What is that in your mindset? How did you decide what your goal is and why you're doing it?
Özkan Akkilic
Özkan AkkilicGUEST
24:39
I mean, my initial motivation was that I wanted to build something which is enabling entrepreneurship on scale and international.
Özkan Akkilic
Özkan AkkilicGUEST
24:50
This is how I started and founded the company in 2013 already and made a lot of pivots also.
Özkan Akkilic
Özkan AkkilicGUEST
24:57
So it doesn't mean that I have one vision and I have only one way to get to this vision.
Özkan Akkilic
Özkan AkkilicGUEST
25:04
So while you are going the way, sometimes you are going the wrong way.
Özkan Akkilic
Özkan AkkilicGUEST
25:09
Sometimes you need to go back in your way.
Özkan Akkilic
Özkan AkkilicGUEST
25:11
Sometimes you need to take another way.

25 MINS LATER

Darren Lee
Darren LeeHOST
49:46
My question to you is, how come you did this? Like what was your first instance when you were thinking

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