Strategic Goals and Scaling to Millions of Users | Aytekin Tank

Aytekin Tank accidentally started his first business when he wrote a piece of open-source software and it became quite successful. For a few years, JotForm was a side hustle — he worked on it early mornings, evenings, and weekends while working his full-time job, which he eventually walked away from.

Intrigued by the first success, he set out to think of a product more people would want to use. In 2006, he found what he was looking for in web forms — and he set out to build what is now JotForm.

Now in its 12th year of business, JotForm has amassed a team of nearly 100 people and 4,000,000 active users.

In this discussion, we talk about:

• • Using your time as an employee to learn how a business does and doesn’t work
  • Why you do not need to be a risk taker to become an entrepreneur
  • The value of goal setting in your businees

Now, let’s hack …

Aytekin Tank

Resources and links from the show

• JotForm

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