It’s actually only been 4 years since your establishment, but you are planning to go public on the New York stock market in a very short time, Why IPO and why New York stock market?
Technology-assisted transportation, a global trend, is growing all over the world. It is also growing very fast in Turkey. In order to continue this growth, we need serious resources. When we look at the places that can provide this resource, we see that the American stock markets are the right places. Given our company’s current position and growth rate, we decided that this was the right time and the right move to raise funds.
‘WE ARE A TRANSPORTATION COMPANY’
Well, after going on the New York stock market, you will reach a value of approximately five hundred and thirty-two million dollars, and it is expected that a resource of around two hundred and eighty million dollars will be transferred to the company’s coffers. How would you evaluate this resource?
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Our job and our aim is to take people from point A to point B in Turkey. We are not a scooter rental company. We are not a car rental company either. We are a transportation company, we are a transportation startup. That’s why our goal is to bring electric, shared, environmentally friendly, affordable and accessible transportation to the maximum number of people in a country of eighty-five million people. This can be with scooters, motorcycles, cars or any other type of vehicle, it doesn’t matter. Our aim is to bring electric shared environmental transportation to the maximum number of eighty-five million. That’s why all the incoming resources will be fully invested for the company to grow different vehicle types in different cities.
Are there more provinces on the target and on the route?
We are currently in 16 provinces, we wish to be in 81 provinces. As we get investments and grow, we will increase both the number of our vehicles, the cities we are in and the types of vehicles. You asked why you are trying to open to the New York stock market, why you will open it, we used to say that we can reach the cities of all people who ask me about this, we are doing it for this.
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You have reached 46 thousand vehicles, which is a very high number. As the source comes, both the number of vehicles will increase and as far as I understand, the number of accessibility in the provinces will increase. Well, it is stated that Turkey is the only country among the G20 countries that does not have a ‘super app’. What do you mean by that, can you open it?
Technology-supported transportation companies are ahead of us in almost all of the G20 countries with a high population, except for Turkey. Our aim is to catch and even pass these countries. To make Turkey a success in this business. To create a giant in environmentally friendly electric shared transportation and Turkey is at this point. Seagull It has come to the point of being a part and pioneer of this great revolution. This is what we mean when we say that there is no transportation super app in the G20 countries. There is this in many countries, you pick up your phone when you leave your home, there are many companies that sell you alternatives that can go from point A to point B, no matter how far, at any time of the day, over your phone, and there are giants. We are the first to do this in Turkey. We are the only ones who do it at scale. So that’s what we mean. When you leave your home, without getting into your own personal car, it is a wonderful place in cities such as Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, which run on gasoline and pollute the nature. traffic You will open our app instead of going from one place to another by getting on a transportation vehicle that creates a Wherever you want to go, we will bring the vehicle that will go that distance to you. This is what we’re talking about.
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You say that you receive requests from different provinces of Turkey to come here. So, are there such demands from different countries? Or do you think of such an opening in different countries?
Our focus is on our hometown right now. We plan to spend the 280 million dollar investment we mentioned only in Turkey. Our aim is for as many people as possible within the borders of the Republic of Turkey to benefit from this new technological revolution. To be able to use electric shared environmental transportation, to make it a part of daily life. This is our concern right now.
TARGET 30-40 MILLION USERS
How do you see the future of micro mobility? Will we see more different vehicles? Will they always be electric and shared? Will the system continue like this? All this is an environmentalist approach to the traffic problem. What kind of a vision does it add to Martı in the future on the way to find solutions? So where do you dream of seeing Seagull in 10 years?
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We believe that all the vehicles we see around us will be electric in 10 years, and that every electric vehicle can share. This is our vision. That’s why Martı concentrates on electrification and sharing of all vehicles that take people from one place to another without specifically separating them as scooters, motorcycles or cars. We also want the Seagull to be much bigger 10 years from now, that all the vehicles seen on the street will be electric and most of them will be shared. We hope to increase the number that is 5.6 million today to 30-40 million. By offering this service, we want to facilitate the daily life of people living in Turkey. Our office is in Maslak and I got to the office in an hour and a half. According to many people, Istanbul is the most beautiful city in the world. It’s a great place in my opinion. Geographically, it is one of the most beautiful places. But traffic is making a lot of people tired of their lives. So this is the problem that we are trying to solve, that we are working on. To make Istanbul residents much more livable, Ankara, Izmir, Antalya, 16 cities we are in and much more more livable, more enjoyable for people, easier transportation.
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I mean, 10 years later, if the flying drones are ready to ride, I guess we will see the Seagull fly too?
If he takes people from point A to point B, Seagull wants to be in that job too.
‘WE ARE WORKING TO INCREASE SECURITY’
It is a fact that Martı makes our lives easier. We can easily understand this from the frequency of use or the capacity you come from. But the security business is very much discussed in the public. There are those who criticize these vehicles as unsafe, should not be used without making them safer, or occupy pavements where they are left. You think about it, what can be done, do you agree with them?
As in every new system, there will be roughnesses here, but it will settle over time. We look at the business in general and see that; Today we are the #1 transportation app on the Appstore. The star we received is 4.7, our total number of downloads is 5.6 million. You can understand the benefit, appreciation and use rate of an application that millions of people love to use and give 4.7 stars in the country. We are working to increase security in both our software and our tools. We strive to improve our operation. These will settle in time. Unfortunately, the number of people who lost their lives in fatal car accidents in the first six months of this year should be one thousand and eighty. When you look at the scooter specific of this, there is not one in a thousand. In other words, one thousand and eighty people lost their lives in car accidents in Turkey in the first six months, and the rate of these accidents with scooters is not even one-thousandth of that. But we are trying to improve security, operation and software.
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