About
I enjoy growing things from zero to one, and one to the top. I'm just observing, learning and doing. I'm a team member at Menlo Research, building thinking machines.
Current curiosities:
- Economics: I'm learning it to play big
- Humanoid Robots: I'm learning how robots would work in the world designed for humans
- 中文 - Learning Chinese: Hardware speaks it, and I want to eavesdrop
Achievements I'm proud of:
- 2025: Jan hit 4M+ downloads with 0 paid marketing, released open-source AI models passed 500k+ downloads, launched chat.jan.ai. Started a robotics brand.
- 2024: We achieved 2M+ downloads for Jan with 0 marketing budget, started monthly event series in Singapore, partnered with leaders like NVIDIA
- 2023: We shaped heybooster from messaging to sales narratives, prepared the company to raise, worked with IKEA, Decathlon, Les Benjamins, and 50+ other companies
- 2022: We organized the largest industry event in Turkiye & MENA, partnered with AWS, Voodoo, Facebook Gaming, Huawei Ads, Asana, and 100+ companies
- 2021: We built the biggest B2B video-games media in Turkiye, worked with Zynga and 50+ studios
- 2020: We built the biggest B2C mobile games media in Turkiye & MENA, turned a side hustle into a business with 10+ people
- 2019: We built Turkiye's biggest esports media platform, partnered with Turkish Airlines, Burger King, and official esports leagues
Moved to Singapore in 2025, after my wife and I spent two years exploring Southeast Asia.
Ping me at eckworksup@gmail.com