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How I got here, and what I care about.

I'm Noah. I'm from the Columbus area, I'm finishing a Finance degree at Ohio State, and I build companies. This is the longer version.

My story

Starting on a crew

My first real responsibility was on a lawn crew at Beals Lawn Services in 2022. I showed up, learned the work and started leading the crew on-site. By the end of that year I was General Manager, running day-to-day operations while I was taking classes at Columbus State.

That job taught me the basics of running a business: customers remember whether you showed up and did what you said, and small problems turn into big ones if nobody owns them.

Learning to trade

I got into trading Nasdaq futures through an online trading community, alongside two friends who are now my partners. I put in the screen time, made the mistakes, and slowly built my own way of reading the market. Over time I went from student to helping teach other students.

Trading taught me more about myself than anything else. The setup is the easy part. The hard part is following your own rules on every single trade, especially right after a loss.

Starting The Trading Ark

When that chapter ended, we started The Trading Ark to teach the way we actually trade. A lot of the people we'd been teaching came with us, and many of them are still here today. It has grown into a community of about 400 members, with daily live sessions, a full course and a team of traders and teachers.

Building Ark pushed me into everything at once: branding, pricing, sales, hiring, support and operations. When we needed a better way for members to journal and learn, I built the platform myself, and turned my trading model into a TradingView indicator.

Building for other businesses

Everything I built for Ark showed me how much time a good system saves. In 2026 I co-founded Terova Solutions to do the same for local businesses: websites, fast follow-up for new leads, automatic reminders and dashboards that show owners how they're doing.

Where I'm headed

I graduate from Ohio State's Fisher College of Business in 2027. I want to keep building and growing businesses, my own and other people's, and surround myself with people who are better than me at the things I'm still learning.

What I value

Discipline over motivation

Motivation comes and goes. Rules, routines and showing up every day are what actually get results, in trading and in business.

Do what you said you'd do

Trust is built one kept promise at a time. I'd rather promise less and deliver every time.

Teach what you know

The fastest way to learn something is to explain it to someone else. I share what I've learned and I'm glad when the people I teach pass me.

Build systems, not busywork

If something gets done by hand over and over, it should be a system. That frees people up for the work only they can do.

Play the long game

I care about relationships that last years, with partners, members and clients, more than any single deal.

Stay a student

I'm early in my career and I know it. I ask questions, take feedback and keep learning from people who have done it before me.

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