Nevzat Aydin attended the global e-commerce fair WORLDEF ISTANBUL 2025, which was held at the Istanbul Yenikapi Event Area. As part of the fair, Aydin spoke at a panel titled “What’s Next in E-Commerce? A Frank Talk with a Pioneering Entrepreneur.” The panel, moderated by Celal Toprak, Editor-in-Chief of Türkiye’s İş Dünyası Magazine, addressed e-commerce, entrepreneurship, and artificial intelligence.
Nevzat Aydin: E-commerce will grow significantly
Referring to the developments in the e-commerce ecosystem, Nevzat Aydin said, “According to the most pessimistic scenario, it is estimated that e-commerce will grow threefold in the next 10 years. Although it varies by sector and the players in that sector, e-commerce will grow significantly. With artificial intelligence coming into play, very different applications will enter our lives. In terms of personalization and being able to receive services tailored to you, interesting things await us,” he said.
“A startup without artificial intelligence will have a very hard time growing”
Emphasizing the importance of doing business based on knowledge, Nevzat Aydin stated that he has invested in more than 80 startups and said: “When it comes to startups I will invest in, I first look at the entrepreneur’s profile and character traits. The startup I invest in should be one where I enjoy working together and where I can learn something.”
Aydin said, “A startup without artificial intelligence will have a very hard time growing. Somewhere in the startup, there needs to be technology and scalability. Artificial intelligence does this abundantly. In my time, when I had an idea for a project, there was no information about how it had been done in the world or what had been tried. Now there is an incredible amount of information—you can access information everywhere. But it’s much more important to extract the useful information from all that data. You must research very well and find the right information,” he noted.
“In my time, the opportunity was the internet; now it is artificial intelligence”
Nevzat Aydin said, “We will see in a few years how much artificial intelligence has changed life in many areas. A very different world awaits us. This is an opportunity. In my time, this opportunity was the internet. I also did the right project at the right time. Now, what will develop is artificial intelligence! I think the biggest advantage for young people is that artificial intelligence is advancing by improving them. There is so much that can be done,” he said.
