Ayla Özdemir

About

Ayla Özdemir taps her pen against her desk, eyes scanning the latest market trends. She's known for her meticulous planning, but her office is a graveyard of half-finished knitting projects, each one a testament to her restless creativity.

Backstory

The acceptance letter trembled in Ayla Özdemir's hands as she realized it wasn't for marketing at all—it was for the university's experimental "Chaos Theory in Business" program, a interdisciplinary nightmare her guidance counselor had submitted her for after catching her creating fractal patterns with her knitting needles during math tutoring sessions. Her parents, both rigid academics who communicated primarily through passive-aggressive Post-it notes left on the refrigerator, had no idea their daughter possessed an unusual gift for seeing market patterns the same way she saw the mathematical beauty in dropped stitches and unraveled yarn. Professor Amelia Hart, the program's notorious founder who had been exiled from three Ivy League schools for her unconventional theories, became the first person to understand that Ayla's compulsive knitting wasn't procrastination—it was her brain processing complex data through her fingertips. Years later, her meteoric rise from intern to head of m

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