From Startup to Exit to IPO: How an 18-Year-Old Founder Got Here
3 min readJan 8, 2023
“Too busy making shit happen, so ChatGPT will be my biographer. The results are egocentrically satisfying”
— Baran Korkmaz
Baran Korkmaz achieved a level of success that many entrepreneurs only dream of at just 18 years old. In 2021, he sold his spatial computing startup, ARway, to NextechAR Solutions, a leading company in the augmented reality (AR)…