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The gaming industry has a well-worn path to scale. Raise capital, acquire competitors, list publicly, use the proceeds to acquire more. The companies that dominate the sector followed variations of this route, assembling portfolios of brands and licences over decades. The playbook is proven. It is also, in the view of Gurhan Kiziloz, entirely optional.
Nexus International, the company Kiziloz founded and still owns in its entirety, generated $1.2 billion in revenue in 2025. The achievement is notable not only for its scale but for the terms on which it was reached. There were no outside investors. No venture capital rounds. No institutional shareholders.
The business was funded from Kiziloz’s own resources and grown on its own cash flows. The model that produced $1.2 billion revenue looks nothing like the model that built the industry’s incumbents.
At the centre of Nexus International sits Spartans.com, the platform that drives the majority of the company’s revenue. Kiziloz constructed it around a simple premise: compete on performance, not promotion. Payouts process in seconds rather than the hours or days users tolerate elsewhere.
Compliance infrastructure was embedded from the start, not bolted on as regulations tightened. The user experience was stripped of friction until what remained was fast, clean, and reliable. These are not glamorous differentiators. They are operational ones, harder to market but harder to replicate.
Megaposta extended the approach into Brazil. The market is large and attractive, but global operators have often underperformed there, treating it as an extension of their international platforms rather than a market requiring dedicated investment. Kiziloz took the opposite approach. Megaposta was built for Brazilian users specifically, local payment methods, Portuguese-first design, content calibrated to regional preferences.
The localisation went deeper than language. It shaped the product. The result is a platform that feels native to users who have learned to recognise when they are being served an afterthought.
Together, Spartans.com and Megaposta pushed Nexus International past the billion-dollar threshold. The growth was organic in the truest sense: funded by operations, compounded through reinvestment, achieved without the capital injections that smooth the path for venture-backed competitors. Building this way imposes discipline. There is no cushion to absorb missteps, no external runway to extend timelines.
Every decision carries consequence. The $1.2 billion milestone represents not a single strategic masterstroke but the accumulation of thousands of decisions made correctly under those constraints.
Kiziloz remains closely involved in how Nexus International operates. The tempo of the organisation reflects his expectations, decisions move quickly, accountability is immediate, performance standards are explicit. The culture is demanding. It is also unambiguous. Those who thrive in environments where contribution and outcome are tightly linked find a company built for them. The organisation has grown without losing the focus that characterised its earlier stages.
The ownership structure amplifies what all of this means. Kiziloz owns Nexus International completely. The absence of outside shareholders is not incidental; it is architectural. It allows the company to move without seeking approval, to adapt without explaining itself, to operate with a unity of purpose that distributed ownership structures often cannot sustain. When Kiziloz identifies an opportunity, execution follows. When conditions shift, the company shifts with them.
The independence has cost him nothing except options he did not want.
Nexus International now operates at a scale that places it among the significant players in gaming. The revenue is documented. The growth is verified. A company built on unconventional terms has reached conventional measures of success. The path Kiziloz chose, self-funded, entirely owned, operationally intense, has produced results that validate the choices made along the way.
The $1.2 billion also contributes to a personal net worth now estimated at $1.7 billion. The figure reflects what complete ownership of a profitable, growing enterprise produces. It is wealth created through operations rather than speculation, through revenue rather than fundraising narratives. The same independence that allowed Kiziloz to build Nexus International his way concentrated the rewards of that building in his hands alone.
What comes next remains in those hands as well. The infrastructure that supports $1.2 billion in annual earnings can support more. The operational capabilities have been tested at scale and proven sound. The markets Nexus International serves continue to grow. Kiziloz treats the current position not as an achievement to be preserved but as a foundation for what follows.
The gaming industry’s established path to scale remains available to those who want it. Gurhan Kiziloz found another way, the $1.2 billion revenue lends it ample merit over other methods.
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