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SAYGIN YALCIN 39-year-old Dubai-based billionaire Saygin Yalcini is an academic lecturer at the Canadian University of Dubai, guru of online business and a very successful entrepreneur of Turkish origin. Born in Bremen, Germany, Saygin founded Sukar.com, later partnering with Souq.com to become the largest ecommerce company in the Arab world before selling to Amazon for a cool $590 million in the global giant’s largest acquisition outside the U.S. to date. Saygin is also founder and CEO of SellAnyCar.com, the Middle East’s OUT OF OFFICE Need some business advice or feel stuck for inspiration? Take a moment to refresh your strategy with these invaluable resources WORDS BY LORENNE BROGAN first and largest car trading platform. But Saygin is more than an UBS Industry Leader and Ultra-High-Net-Worth entrepreneur. His larger-than-life personality has also catapulted him to becoming a social media megastar too, where he shares his skills in the trade with his 1.03 million YouTube subscribers and combined 1.9 million followers on X and Instagram. His book, My Children Will Be Born Rich – This is What I Will Teach Them, addresses how successful humans are people who choose to make the right investments, revealing how his company made 1.1 million U.S dollars in its first eight weeks of operations. PODCA S T S THE INFLUENCERWE FOLLOW FOR A DAILY DOSE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ADVICE THE PODCASTWE TUNE INTO FOR FINANCIAL MATTERS WE STUDY BILLIONAIRES We Study Billionaires podcast, hosted by Stig Brodersen, Preston Pysh, Clay Finck and William Green, is the flagship podcast of The Investor’s Podcast Network, with more than 100 million downloads. On the show, they study and interview legendary billionaires and investors, such as Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Howard Marks, discussing investment strategies, current market conditions and how to apply their lessons in the stock markets. Also worth a listen is popular spinoff show, Bitcoin Fundamentals, hosted solely by Preston Pysh, that asks extraordinary business owners to share their biggest business bloopers – so you know where to find the potholes and avoid them on your road to success. THE PODCASE WE TUNE INTO TO NAVIGATE SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING WITHMICHAEL STELZNER Publishing weekly since 2012, this show helps marketers navigate the ever-changing marketing jungle with expert interviews from leading marketing pros. Join Social Media Examiner’s founder Michael Stelzner as he helps you discover new strategies and actionable tips to improve your marketing, with the most recent episodes covering Facebook ads, video and storytelling, and turning Instagram stories to conversions. MUST LISTEN EPISODE Getting Started With GA4: A Practical Approach GLOBAL ƒFRANCHISE.COM 65