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Aytekin Tank
Founder & CEO at Jotform
- Entrepreneur
- Author
- đSan Francisco, CA
Aytekin Tank is a founder, productivity expert, automation enthusiast, and the author of Automate Your Busywork. His entrepreneurial passion and firm belief in creating tools to make organizations more productive led him to build Jotform, a bootstrapped global SaaS company that provides powerful online forms to tens of millions of users.
Aytekin founded Jotform in 2006. After his first year as a founder, he was able to hire his first employee, Since then, Jotform has grown into one of the best online form builders available. Jotform has also built other products, including PDF Editor and Mobile App Builder. As Jotform became a full-scale no-code tool without any venture capital or investment, Aytekin continues to serve as the CEO of Jotform.
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 BOOK NOW FOR your podcast
Aytekin Tank
Founder & CEO at Jotform
- đSan Francisco, CA
- Entrepreneur
- Author
Aytekin Tank is a founder, productivity expert, automation enthusiast, and the author of Automate Your Busywork. His entrepreneurial passion and firm belief in creating tools to make organizations more productive led him to build Jotform, a bootstrapped global SaaS company that provides powerful online forms to tens of millions of users.
Aytekin founded Jotform in 2006. After his first year as a founder, he was able to hire his first employee, Since then, Jotform has grown into one of the best online form builders available. Jotform has also built other products, including PDF Editor and Mobile App Builder. As Jotform became a full-scale no-code tool without any venture capital or investment, Aytekin continues to serve as the CEO of Jotform.
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“Over the past decade, venture capital has become synonymous with entrepreneurship. Founders from around the world arrive in Silicon Valley with visions of record-setting A rounds and billion-dollar valuations. But what if you donât have unicorn dreams â or you donât want to pursue VC money?”
“I was on the phone with a colleague last week, going over our year in review. Itâs an activity I normally look forward to but which now gave me pause as I recalled the many real struggles weâve faced as a company since March.
“So, rather than composing an entire speech ahead of time, write out key concepts you want to hit, the practice â using them as a focus. Because, by leaving space for flexibility, it’s easier to adjust depending on the mood of the room. If people seem to be zoning out, engage the audience with a question or joke. Making eye contact and moving around the stage is also key for maintaining dynamic interaction â both much harder if you’re frozen in place trying to remember your lines.”
“Aytekin Tank is the founder of JotForm, which makes software for creating online forms. Writing on his companyâs blog, he describes multi-item to-do lists as ‘a race to the bottom, except there is no bottom.’
He suggests an alternative system for getting things done.”
“Today, more than two years after the global onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, it seems many businesses are finally starting to see the light (or at least more light) at the end of the tunnel. Many of them have faced a business crisis and somehow managed to survive.
At the same time, health officials are already trying to get ahead of the next pandemic whenever it may occur because one thingâs certain: It will occur.”
“I spoke with Aytekin Tank, CEO and founder of JotForm, an online service that lets you publish forms of any type. We spoke about his views on cross-functional teams and how they drive better business performance. Here are five key requirements for teams that he shared.”
“Iâm not sure when the dogma of morning routines began to spread, but suddenly, these mile-long checklists are everywhere â especially in the startup world.
Routines can be great, but I think thereâs a misplaced emphasis on morning.
Everyone has different peak hours. If you want to enhance your productivity, it doesnât matter whether youâre a morning person or a night owl, or if you go for a run at 6 am or 6 pm.”
“Homer understood the power of habits. In his epic poem, The Odyssey, the Sirens are half-woman, half-bird creatures whose hypnotic voices lure sailors into deadly coastlines. Ignore the misogyny in this ancient Greek tale, and the Sirens represent temptation; the magnetic pull of things we should probably resist. I’m not a classical scholar, but habits feel like the siren song of modern life.”
“Saying goodbye isnât easy. For over 30 years, a to-do list was my constant companion. We stuck together through notepads, bullet journals, apps, and a whole lot of sticky notes. But I recently ended our co-dependent relationshipâand I urge you to do the same.”
“As a busy CEO and founder, I receive hundreds of emails every day and send around 50 myself. Yet at the end of the day, my inbox is empty. I follow a principle called Inbox Zero. No, I donât have an assistant managing my emails. And no, Inbox Zero is not just a dream â it can be done.”
“Iâve been a CEO for more than 16 years, while I have always tended to stay away from productivity hacks, I believe âscary hourâ may be one of the worst ones yet. Plus, I believe it is a leadersâ responsibility to provide their employees with tips on how to avoid âscary hoursâ and to offer various ways to stay productive when challenging tasks arise. Hereâs what you should do instead of trying âscary hour.â”
“The other side of the coin, which doesnât always make the headlines, is the employees who manage to hold onto their positions. In addition to simmering anxiety about their careers, these employees have to grapple with significantly larger workloads. In the tech industry, for example, one report found that the number of weekend hours jumped to 11.5 hours on averageâa 31 % increase.”
Timeline
Feb 2006 - Present
Jotform
Founder & CEO
May 2000 - Aug 2005
Internet.com
Sr. Web Developer
