Noah Habtemichael

Action is batter way of knowing what happens compared to playing out with scenarios

Just Do it & Find out, It's not that Deep

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Noah Habtemichael

UGLY TALK @ Shopify NY
2025 Learnings & 2026 Priorities

Big room, honest takes.

2025 was noisy. Winners cut through signal vs hype.
Community beat campaigns.
Misses → fast pivots mattered more than perfect plans.
2026 = operational discipline + repeatable advantages, not trend chasing.

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Noah Habtemichael

Private Markets Panel:

Key takeaways:

Access + networks quietly shape outcomes Who can invest often matters as much as who

Strong companies still go unfunded (timing, positioning, visibility)

Fundraising is relationship-first In 2026, content + personal brand = trust

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Noah Habtemichael

Entrepreneurs Roundtable at Mastercard NYC

Great panel from Mirit Lugassi from @Laconia Capital

Great perspective on the world of early-stage investing

A few insights that stood out:

Early traction doesn’t just mean revenue; pilots and clarity of thinking often matter more than perfect metrics

Strong founders articulate why now just as clearly as what they’re building

Investors also think about how belief is passed on to the next succession of rounds and clarity around when to raise the next round

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Noah Habtemichael

2026 is the year the market shifts from AI infrastructure → AI implementation.

2025 saw massive investment in making the tech work.
Now companies have the tools, and people want to actually use them.

The real question in 2026:
How do you integrate AI in a personalized way that delivers real ROI?

At GenAIx, we’ve focused on the application + education layer for the past 18 months.

There’s still work to be done on infrastructure and energy, but
2026 is the year of practical AI use cases.

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Noah Habtemichael

All in or nothing

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Noah Habtemichael

What most startup founders miss is the importance of building with a team vs. having the typical one co-founder.

I’ve come to understand this much more deeply while building GenAIx

A company is literally a collection of people working toward a common goal.

Yet most entrepreneurs are scared of “losing” equity.

Personally, I’d rather bet on a bigger pie with a smaller slice than a small pie where I own most of it.

Because leverage comes from a collective vision thats big

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Noah Habtemichael

One best things about building a company is the impact

Creating something new can multiply impact and value for a lot of people in a way that never existed

Best part you get to do it with amazing people

The hard part, the amount of uncertainty and growth that comes navigating it

Icing on the cake, you get to grow personally by navigating that and showing up persistently

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Noah Habtemichael

Growing up in Ethiopia at 16, while figuring out what type of future I wanted.

I had this vivid image of a global company based in NYC.

I hadn’t been to NYC before, and my family did not run a company.

But something told me to start pursuing it.

And it was not a straight line, so I took the next available action

At 18, I applied to 20+ colleges around the world.

Ended up in Germany studying Industrial Engineering.

After 100+ internship applications during COVID,
at 20 I found myself at Mercedes-Benz doing finance automation.

At 22, I became a consultant managing global finance automation projects.

For some unexplainable reason, it felt like it was time to move to NYC.

Shortly after, I quit the job and moved to NYC at 22.

Did an MS in Finance as it’s a complementary skill for building a company.

At 23, launched GenAIx as a consulting company.
Always loved education, and we spent a lot of time educating.

An amazing team grew after 200+ interviews.

After 1.5 years at GenAIx, we launched a unique platform for companies:

Moves with the market,
Analyzes org charts,
Maps AI skills and risks across the org,
Creates personalized courses and workflows.

2026 is the year of organizational transformation,
and GenAIx is the personalized consulting& EdTech SaaS platform that transforms organizations.

But most importantly, in 2026, if you have a vision or even a small hint of where you want to go, give yourself full permission to go after it ruthlessly!

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Noah Habtemichael

Think & Grow Rich 2026 version ft AI

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