Tayfun Bilsel

CEO @clinked - entrepreneur, loves science, psychology, skiing and flying (student pilot). MBA @Cambridge_Uni | MSc @LivUni and Striker @MottMacFC

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Reporting from… Liepaja 🇱🇻

Big things in motion at https://t.co/687wxhu0lu lately and I can’t wait to share more on that soon.

For now, it’s flying between offices, plenty of catch-ups… and a pattern of rain I’m starting to take personally.

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Isn’t it wonderful how some of the biggest cultural transformations begin with such simple things – like finally having a door you could close?

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One of the thinkers who pulled me into psychology and philosophy during my college years passed away yesterday.

And it sent me down memory lane, so sharing a few strange historical details from #Habermas’s work that fascinated me back then:

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• Coffeehouses helped invent public debate.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, coffeehouses started popping up across cities like London. Merchants, sailors, writers and lawyers all sitting at the same tables arguing about politics and philosophy.
People called them “penny universities.”

For the price of a coffee, you could walk in and debate the future of the country.

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How To Strengthen Cyber Resilience Through Shared Risk Ownership https://t.co/YOPzUSqKBG from @SGogoll @icerideshare @devoxsoftware @bilsel and more

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How You Can Retain Clients In 2026: Rethinking CX For A Borderless Market https://t.co/lsfB8BOXsi Written by @bilsel of @clinked

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You might be the ceiling your growth keeps hitting.

At some point, building a company has to move beyond how much you, as the founder, can personally carry or control.

This takes most founders a long time to accept: teams exist, so you don’t have to be good at everything, or everywhere or all the time.

But here's the catch: when you build with people and let go of control, some things will certainly go wrong. That’s part of the deal.

What matters is whether they feel safe enough to own it, talk about it, and learn from it.

Because only then, in five years, will they be so good at what they do, you'll wonder how you ever operated without them.

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This was THE hardest lesson I’ve had to learn in the early days of building @clinked 👇

When you’re a founder, it’s natural to want to keep your hands on everything. But it's also very costly.

Though it feels terrifying at first, delegation is allowing someone else to shape your business, improve it, and sometimes even break it on the way to doing it better.

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Not many people know this, but the @clinked client portal has been fully bootstrapped for 14 years.

And this week, I finally get to sit in the other chair of a podcast and talk through what that journey has actually looked like 📷

Link in comments to the full episode.

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Nearly HALF of all UK crime last year was cyber‼️

And when there's a data leak, especially in professional services, many companies, even the giants, never recover from that.

So before you send that attachment… watch this 👇

#CyberSecurity #clientportal

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A team lead told me last week,
“I need 12 tabs open just to see where things stand with one client.”

If 12 tabs and loads of caffeine are the bare minimum, your clients feel it twice as strongly.
They hate juggling tools just to work with you.

Here's the fix 👇

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We’re all tired. Everyone’s juggling too much. What people really want is one less headache.
That's why clients leave: because working with you feels harder than it should.

Here's why client portals are quietly becoming part of the solution 👇

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How Entrepreneurs Can Foster Creativity https://t.co/YSL4sinBE4 Written by @bilsel of @clinked

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These days, we talk a lot about speed.

But creativity doesn’t move fast.
It moves sideways.

I unpack the crisis of creativity in my latest Forbes Tech Council article.

You can read it here 👇
https://t.co/93Lj1cDcl9

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P.S.: Have been reading more on the invention of the "private" self. Wait until you hear what silent reading did to our brains. Coming on Thursday.

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> Until the 1600s, European homes had no corridors.
> Rooms were also shared social spaces, not personal territories.
> Today, the higher up you go at work, the more physical privacy you’re given, offices, corner rooms, separate floors.

So here's my question: is solitude simply a perk, or could it be a prerequisite for how we lead and make decisions?