Efe Çakarel is a Turkish entrepreneur, founder and CEO of

MUBI Mubi (; stylized as MUBI; The Auteurs before 2010) is a global curated film streaming platform, production company and film distributor. Mubi produces and theatrically distributes films by emerging and established filmmakers, which are exclusivel ...

. Following his graduation from the

American Collegiate Institute Founded in 1878, the American Collegiate Institute ( tr, Özel İzmir Amerikan Koleji), referred to by the acronym ACI, is a private co-educational high school in Goztepe, İzmir, Turkey. ACI was founded, and is now run, by the charity foundation ...

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban agglo ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

, he earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, and an

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from

Stanford Graduate School of Business The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford GSB) is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private research university in Stanford, California. For several years it has been the most selective business schoo ...

. Prior to founding MUBI, he spent a number of years at

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. He was part of Turkey's national math team and placed third in the European Math Olympiad. He also has two patents related to monetization of web applications.US patent application: Method and system for providing feedback on business transactions using computer applications
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on founder Efe Cakarel
Wired UK article
on founder Efe Cakarel
Talk given by Efe Cakarel at LeWeb London 2012

Interview on Bloomberg TV’s 'The Pulse' (January 2016)

Roundtable interview on CNBC's Morning News (January 2016)
20th-century births Living people MIT School of Engineering alumni Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni Turkish chief executives Year of birth missing (living people) {{Turkey-bio-stub