Yollarda

Yollarda is a Turkish entrepreneurship and technology show with a live, conversational pulse. Its center is not a scripted lesson plan but the ongoing judgment calls around startups, investment, products, and survival. Koray Bahar and Arman Eker often begin in the middle of the machinery: YouTube is going live, links are being shared, a screen needs adjusting, someone’s child appears in the background. Then the business talk starts. The shift can be abrupt, but it gives the show a working-room quality. Recent episodes are heavily shaped by the pandemic period and its effects on markets, companies, households, and investors. One conversation compares daily life and public response in Germany, the United States, and Turkey, moving from market shortages and social-distance lines to smart-watch health data and public-health coordination. Another follows the uncertain logic of reopening, stock-market rebounds, credit defaults, bank risk, and the possibility that investors may start preferring healthier cash flow over fast growth at any cost. The show also makes space for practical founder questions. In a Q&A episode, the speakers discuss whether someone without English can become a software developer, landing on the importance of English-language resources without turning the point into a slogan. Guest episodes bring startup operators into the room. StudioApp, LeafInbox, and Robomotion appear in one live session, with discussion ranging from corporate well-being and mindfulness to electronic signature work and operational time management. Trendbox brings data from pandemic shopping behavior, including spikes around hygiene products, drinks, cigarettes, and sudden curfew announcements. These details keep Yollarda tied to actual behavior rather than abstract startup vocabulary. The tone is relaxed, sometimes messy, and often direct. It can feel like a founder group chat made public, with jokes, corrections, small technical snags, and business instincts arriving together. For listeners interested in Turkey’s startup ecosystem, it offers context that is local, current, and conversational. For listeners outside that ecosystem, it shows how global shocks become specific problems for companies, investors, employees, and consumers. Yollarda stands out because it preserves the process of thinking, not just the conclusion.