Ozdemir: Severe Burnout and Health Issues Drove the GenPowerPoint Sale
Sia Ozdemir · Built a Profitable Startup and Got Acquired at Just 18 · Jun 3, 2025 · at 4:29
Sia Ozdemir, founder of GenPowerPoint, speaks with Acquire.com CEO Andrew Gazdecki about the personal toll and reasons behind selling his SaaS business at age 18.
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“My health was a huge reason in why I sold it. I had lots of problems with health during the time that I built it because I focused way too much on actually building it rather than caring about other stuff like my own social life, for example. I was building 14 hours, 16 hours every single day, and that kind of got me back to a point where I was once actually in the hospital as well because I shipped so much.”
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