About
Kaan Gülten
Kaan Gülten is Chairman & CEO of Webtures. He led the company as CEO for about fourteen years from 2011, handed over operational management in January 2025 and, after fourteen months focused on superintelligence, next-generation search technologies and product development, returned as CEO to restructure the company for the age of superintelligence.
He is the founder of Brantial, which measures brand visibility in SI search and answer engines, and of Girişimci Kafası, founded in 2014. He is the author of “Uzmanından SEO”, “Sorularla SEO” and “Girişimci Kafasıyla Düşün”; his latest book received the VakıfBank Special Award at the 2025 Platin Business Books Awards.
Current focus
From the age of search to the age of answers
People now put their questions to ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and similar superintelligence systems, and generated answers are steadily replacing the classic list of search results. Kaan describes today's digital world as this shift from search to answers, and his work is about how brands are understood, trusted and recommended by these systems.
Fact sheet
At a glance
- Current roles
- Chairman & CEO, Webtures · Founder, Brantial · Founder, Girişimci Kafası · Founder, Yapay Zeka Kafası
- Born
- Turhal, Tokat, Türkiye
- Education
- Marmara University, Actuarial Science
- Experience
- 20+ years in digital growthSince 2003 (AutoCAD teaching); search technologies since 2007.
- Brands
- 5,000+ served by Webtures; 500+ advised personallyWebtures, 2011-2026.
- 266K+ followers · 20M+ monthly reachFollowers as of 6 Oct 2026; reach from the 2026 influencer rate card.
- Girişimci Kafası
- 5M+ community members · 250M+ monthly viewsCommunity cumulative; views across the platform's accounts, Aug 2026.
- Books
- 86,000+ copies across three titles; 17,000+ of the latestAll three books are in Turkish.
- Talks
- 96 documented talks since 2014, at 34 universities in 22 citiesEach one listed with its source in the talks archive.
Milestones
Dated milestones
- 2003
Starts at Marmara University (Actuarial Science); after an AutoCAD course, begins teaching AutoCAD himself.
- 2008
Launches AutoCADHocasi.com to reach students beyond word of mouth.
- 2009
Ranking AutoCAD Hocası first for dozens of AutoCAD search terms, he learns search engine optimisation by trial and error, and starts SEO Hocası.
- 2011
His journey at Webtures begins, with 7,000 Turkish lira of starting capital and a 30 m² first office.
- 2014
Starts Girişimci Kafası to share what he learned while building a business. Gives his first conference talk in İzmir on 18 October.
- 2017
In the second round of Webtures' Dijital Melek programme, five startups receive digital marketing services and mentoring, with no fee or equity asked.
- 16 April 2019
WEBTURES LTD is incorporated in the United Kingdom (Companies House 11948574).
- January 2020
The Girişimci Kafası podcast starts.
- 2022
Joins Founders Pledge. In September, founds Yapay Zeka Kafası.
- 26 January 2024
Publishes “Girişimci Kafasıyla Düşün”, written together with his own SI clone.
- 2024
Starts building Brantial, turning years of search experience to a new question: how does SI describe a brand?
- November 2024
The Yapay Zeka Kafası programme starts on Ekotürk TV, co-presented with Bilgi Özünal Yuva and their SI clones.
- 5 December 2024
Receives the “CEO Who Inspires Young People” award at GEA Awards 2024.
- January 2025
Hands over the CEO role at Webtures to Bilgi Özünal Yuva and focuses on superintelligence, next-generation search and product development.
- September 2025
Brantial launches on Product Hunt.
- 23 October 2025
“Girişimci Kafasıyla Düşün” receives the VakıfBank Special Award at the Platin Business Books Awards.
- 3 December 2025
Brantial's launch event, Beyond Click, in Istanbul; he gives the opening talk.
- March 2026
Returns as CEO of Webtures, after fourteen months, to lead the company's transformation for the age of superintelligence.
Translated from the Turkish story page, where each entry is told in full.
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