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Erdem Yurdanur: “It
all started with a dream”... For 25 years, the entrepreneur and technological investor, Erdem Yurdanur has been writing projects and developing games in fields that interest him and that he loves. He achieved international success while realizing his dreams. Yurdanur, who recently sold its two companies, Maçkolik and Masomo, to the British, is now preparing for new achievements with its 30 years of experience with Admost.
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rdem Yurdanur, the creator of mackolik.com, is a computer engineer entrepreneur born in Uşak, graduated from Boğaziçi University and has been living in London since 2013. After 5 years of professional experience at Arçelik, where he started working immediately after graduating, Yurdanur founded the software company called Coretech with five of his friends. With many software programs developed in 25 years, Mackolik.com founded in 2002 by Yurdanur, has become Turkey’s largest sports site.
24 Turkish British Magazine I January - February 2020
“Many entrepreneurs or investors knock on my door” “I loved football and I saw a lot of people around me interested in it. The database is my area of expertise and football is a subject that can very well be dealt with on the database. This is why I dreamed of creating the largest football database in the world and I was able to achieve it, said Yurdanur. In 2016, Maçkolik.com sold all its shares to a British company.Then, in January 2019, the second successful attempt to sell Masomo to a British company led the way. “I am happy to have won the title of the first Turkish entrepreneur, thanks to the two sales which allowed me to open these two companies. Because the second sale proved that the first was not a chance success. Now many entrepreneurs or investors are knocking on my door, ”explained Yurdanur about the sale of mackolik. “Perform, which acquired Maçkolik, was one of the world’s leading online sports media companies and was trying to grow around the world through acquisitions. I met them in London in 2011 and we got to know each other. They said they could take our majority share, but I was not thinking of selling our majority share at the time.In 2012 this time
