Fatih Kadir Akın — Selling a Global Sticker Business

When Fatih started his sticker business Stikkernet, his peers asked him, “You’re a developer; why don’t you write this from scratch?” His response? “Why should I?” Today, I&talking to my dear old friend Fatih Kadir Akın — or fka for short. We discuss his unexpected journey of building a successful business out of a simple idea. Fatih shares his experience with building Stikkernet and how he grew his audience through community building. We chat about the challenges of logistics when shipping internationally and how Fatih found solutions that worked so well it lead to an exit. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:51 Stikkernet 00:10:05 How Fatih became a sticker expert in Turkey 00:18:28 The perfect product for community-based marketing. 00:29:02 Sticker Mule 00:33:03 What is developer relations? 00:38:17 Do you still get to code? 00:41:52 Community-building 00:47:54 The pressure of starting a business.