Sahin Boydas
Founder & CEO at Lovie.co
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSahin Boydas is a serial founder and operator with 11 years of experience building consumer and developer-facing products from zero to exit in Silicon Valley. He solo-founded RemoteTeam and scaled a fully remote HR/payroll platform to acquisition by Gusto in 580 days, raising $2.2M and running hiring, partnerships and the exit entirely over Zoom. Prior exits include MovieLaLa (reached 360M people) and multiple product hits—Leo AR and MojiLaLa—demonstrating a knack for viral consumer distribution and platform thinking. An active angel investor in 180+ startups and named a top U.S. angel, he prefers founder-led, product-first teams and often holds long-term stakes rather than flipping. Sahin mentors founders and engineers (author of Becoming Top 1%) and now runs Lovie.co in stealth while leading post-exit founder communities in San Francisco. Less obvious: he intentionally builds junior-heavy, engineering-led teams that turn first jobs into founder trajectories, with many teammates going on to start companies themselves.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering at Koç UniversityMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Entrepreneurship, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Entrepreneurship at Bahcesehir University
Github Skills (200)
aws-ses10
camera10
cloud-services10
video-player10
privacy-policy10
hosting10
sendy10
sendgrid10
movie10
swift10
uiviewcontroller10
media-player10
sidekiq10
cross-platform10
ios10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
sahin/status-page
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:1045 commits, 6 PRs, 5000 pushes in 1 month
cloud-servicescloudazureawsstatuses
mojilala/sticker-api
Dec 2018 - Jun 2020
MojiLaLa Sticker API documentation for partnerships
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
apistickerapi-documentationpartnerships
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