In 2004, a month before Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room, another social media site landed on the internet with a splash of hot pink. If you were online in the mid-2000s, you might remember Orkut, with its lurid logo, fingernail-sized profile pictures, and text-heavy, pastel-blue feeds. Unlike Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, or even Tom from MySpace, the site’s founder managed to stay under the radar. You might not know that the man behind Orkut is also called Orkut.
Born in Konya, Turkey, Orkut Büyükkökten moved to Germany at the age of 1. A childhood obsession with Star Wars led him to study computer science at Stanford, where,
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