Q. Let’s start with a general question; how is the startup life treating you since you left the professional career after 32 years? It has now been almost two years since you started this journey, right? Well, so far so good...
“It takes away thinking” About four years ago while I was still working at BBVA, I visited San Francisco for several meetings including one with Apple about Apple pay. After I finished the meetings in downtown in the first couple of days I took a...
Sevgili dostum BKM Genel Müdürü Soner Canko’nun Dijital CEO ile Teknoloji Sohbetleri’nin 15. bölümüne San Francisco’daki ofisimizde konuk oldum. myGini ve girişimcilik üzerine gerçekleştirdiğimiz bu sohbeti aşağıdaki videodan izleyebilirsiniz. Ve...
My professional career started in 1984 at Price Waterhouse during my senior college year at METU in Ankara. Perhaps the only break I had to date had been my MBA studies in Boston. Even then I worked as a research assistant, had my masters and more...
Victor is a great friend of mine. He lived in The Netherlands for more than 10 years. He travelled the world when he was young. Unlike me and lucky for him, he had nothing to do with banking, he was in fashion and retailing business (which already...
2015 has been a year of BBVA Wallet globally. Which other bank has two million downloads in five countries? We have spent two years and made several upgrades to our Spanish Wallet to reach one million. Then during the summer of this year we have...
The other day I was showing my wife the great e-commerce platform we built at BBVA for small and medium-size merchants in Spain called Nimble. She looked at it and simply said “I’ve done it 15 years ago”. In fact she was the founder CEO of an e...
My dad was a wise man. He had many quotes that I still use today. One of such wisdom was this: “Time is the only democratic resource given to mankind.” He meant that all of us, however rich or poor, young or old, man or woman, a CEO or a shepherd...
I tried to argue for a better world taking on issues such as democracy, education, climate and capitalism on one my posts around two years ago. My views have not changed and I really believe we as humans are wasting precious time to make this planet...
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