Efe Cakarel is a Turkish entrepreneur and founder and CEO of MUBI. He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

, and an MBA

Master of Business Administration

The Master of Business Administration is a :master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and companies sought out...

 from Stanford Graduate School of Business

Stanford Graduate School of Business

The Stanford Graduate School of Business is one of the professional schools of Stanford University, in Stanford, California and is broadly regarded as one of the best business schools in the world.The Stanford GSB offers a general management Master of Business Administration degree, the Sloan...

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

Goldman Sachs

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 in investment banking

Investment banking

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He contributes regularly to The Huffington Post

The Huffington Post

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. He also has two patents in monetization of web applications.

External links

• Film Comment article on founder Efe Cakarel: http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/jf09/uncutauth.htm
• Wired UK article on founder Efe Cakarel: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/10/start/arthouses-social-network