Talk:Avi Yashchin

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This request is posted by an assistant acting on behalf of Avi Yashchin, the subject of this article — conflict of interest is hereby disclosed per WP:COI; the subject is not editing the article directly for that reason. The article is a 2015-era stub whose statements are now outdated (the subject is no longer a General Assembly instructor, and CleanEdison ceased operating under that name). The following changes are requested, each supported by an independent source. Nothing is requested that could not be sourced independently.

1. Replace the sentence describing the subject as "currently" an instructor with General Assembly (cited to a 2015 instructor page) with: "He is the founder and chief executive officer of Subconscious.ai, a company that applies large language models to market research." — Source: Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Chicago, November 15, 2023: https://polsky.uchicago.edu/2023/11/15/meet-the-transform-cohort-2-startups-subconciousai/
2. Repair the dead Bloomberg citation by pointing it at the Internet Archive copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20150402194409/http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=117969449&privcapId=117969424
3. Add education (BS in computer science, Johns Hopkins University; MBA, New York University Stern School of Business) — supported by the same archived Bloomberg profile.
4. Add the Lehman Brothers detail consistent with the existing Crain's citation (seven years at the firm, Global Credit Products group): https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090902/SMALLBIZ/909029989/ex-lehman-execs-set-up-their-own-shops
5. Update the Entrepreneur citation URL to the current slug: https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/how-to-make-the-move-from-big-business-employee-to/222959

Proposed replacement wikitext incorporating these changes:

'''Avi Yashchin''' is an American entrepreneur. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Subconscious.ai, a company that applies large language models to market research.<ref name="polsky">{{cite web |title=Meet the Transform Cohort 2 Startups: Subconscious.AI |url=https://polsky.uchicago.edu/2023/11/15/meet-the-transform-cohort-2-startups-subconciousai/ |publisher=Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Chicago |date=November 15, 2023 |access-date=July 4, 2026}}</ref>

== Career ==
Yashchin spent seven years in finance at Lehman Brothers, where he worked in the Global Credit Products group, until the firm's 2008 collapse.<ref name="crains">{{cite news |last=Bindrim |first=Kira |title=Ex-Lehman execs set up their own shops |url=https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090902/SMALLBIZ/909029989/ex-lehman-execs-set-up-their-own-shops |work=Crain's New York Business |date=September 2, 2009 |access-date=July 4, 2026}}</ref><ref name="bloomberg">{{cite web |title=Avi Yashchin: Executive Profile & Biography |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402194409/http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=117969449&privcapId=117969424 |publisher=Bloomberg Businessweek |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |access-date=July 4, 2026}}</ref>

In 2008 he founded CleanEdison, a New York-based clean-energy vocational training company; by 2012 the company reported $3.5 million in annual revenue and 22 employees.<ref name="entrepreneur">{{cite news |last=Porter |first=Jane |title=How to Make the Move From Big-Business Employee to Small-Business Owner |url=https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/how-to-make-the-move-from-big-business-employee-to/222959 |work=Entrepreneur |date=February 24, 2012 |access-date=July 4, 2026}}</ref>

As of 2023, Yashchin leads Subconscious.ai, which participated in the University of Chicago Polsky Center's Transform accelerator.<ref name="polsky" />

== Education ==
Yashchin holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Business Administration from New York University's Stern School of Business.<ref name="bloomberg" />

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Editors may of course trim or rephrase; the goal of this request is only that the article stop asserting outdated facts. Thank you. ~2026-38200-60 (talk) 02:04, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Addendum (same assistant, on behalf of the subject, COI disclosed as above): one additional independent source supporting change #1. Gartner names Subconscious AI among its 33 "startups to watch" (of 60 reviewed) and describes it, alongside three peers, as a leader in "large-scale digital twin and causal modeling": Vibha Chitkara, Emerging Tech: AI Vendor Race: Startups to Watch in Synthetic Population and Behavioral Simulation, Gartner, 14 April 2026, document G00838481. The report is subscription-access; per WP:PAYWALL this does not affect citability. Suggested use: an additional citation on the Subconscious.ai sentence, e.g. <ref>{{cite report |author=Vibha Chitkara |title=Emerging Tech: AI Vendor Race: Startups to Watch in Synthetic Population and Behavioral Simulation |publisher=Gartner |date=April 14, 2026 |id=G00838481 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> ~2026-38250-26 (talk) 02:39, 5 July 2026 (UTC)