Can (John) Ozuysal

I have been acting as a growth advisor to investors and startups, mostly based in the US.

• Helping startups with: GTM, growth marketing, product marketing and fundraising.
• I work with the portfolio companies of: Cheery Ventures, Craft Ventures, Lightspeed Partners, Andreessen Horowitz.

I built a growth consultancy for tech startups to help them to increase their revenues using various channels.

• Scaled the company to 7 figures in revenue within a year.
• Worked with startups backed by top investors.
• Implemented AI workflows and reduced the reliance on the human workforce significantly.

As a co-founder and CMO, I built the GTM strategy from scratch and designed the growth flywheel for the company.

• Raised from 500 Startups and $1.5m in total.
• 0 to 25k Organic traffic per month in 6 months.
• 0 to 1000 leads per month from organic under 6 months, #1 Product of the day in Product Hunt.
• Product Hunt Golden Kitty Finalist in the Best Analytics Tools category.

Userguiding is one of the big names in user onboarding tools in the US.

• 30k to $1M ARR through content marketing in a year.
• 3k per month organic traffic to 80k per month in a year.
• Organized events with the best growth and product people in US.
• Launched a podcast about growth marketing and received 10k downloads for first season.

Rakam was an analytics platform backed by 500 Startups. As a co-founder was responsible for building GTM from scratch.

• Brought first big-name clients with content marketing.
• Built the marketing and sales strategy from scratch and executed it.
• Represented the company in events in the US and managed investor relationships.
• Built the demand generation channel from scratch.

I joined BNP Asset Management as a buy-side analyst responsible for:

• Screening and summarizing investment opportunities.
• Building and updating valuation models of stocks that were under my coverage.
• Meeting with companies and writing summary reports to inform internal portfolio managers.

Unlu&Co is a publicly trading investment bank in Turkey. I worked on the sell side participating on IPO and M&A deals.

• Performed comprehensive financial analysis and corporate valuation on commodity companies using DCF method with a senior analyst.
• Providing investment proposals considering clientsʼ risk-return profiles by gathering key data and analyzing trends.
• Worked on Dogtas Kelebekʼs SPO and SOK Marketler's IPO.

I was a futures trader intern, following mostly the commodities market in the US

• Traded currency and commodity derivatives that were priced into the market to hedge against emerging market risk.
• Performed research tasks and produced reports on various macro topics, including the US rate-hike cycle, commodity cycle and weekly API and DOE oil data releases.