Julien Uhlig
30 Years Building Companies.
Now Building the Next Generation.
Serial entrepreneur. Venture-backed founder. Clean tech pioneer. Public speaker. Government advisor. And deeply worried about a generation entering a workforce that AI is about to transform entirely.
"The workforce is completely transforming. This generation has the debt coming out of university plus none of the skill sets. Nobody cares about degrees to that extent anymore. Everything is about execution."
— Julien Uhlig, Founder of EX Academy
From Silicon Valley VCs to Bali Classrooms
Julien didn't read about entrepreneurship in a textbook. He lived it — through booms, busts, pivots, and breakthroughs across three decades and multiple continents.
Agnion Technologies
Built and scaled a technology company backed by some of Silicon Valley's most legendary investors — Kleiner Perkins, Wellington Partners, and Mini Venture Partners. Raised significant venture capital and navigated the company through the dot-com era.
Clean Tech & Sustainability
Founded Entrade AG, a clean energy company, and raised substantial funding including from Royal Bank of Scotland. Became a leader in sustainability and clean tech, building real infrastructure that made a measurable environmental impact.
Government & Advisory
Consulted on government grants and cluster projects for companies like Sono Motors, Lilium Aviation, and Africa GreenTech. Deep expertise in navigating complex government funding landscapes across Europe and emerging markets.
EX Venture & EX Academy
Founded EX Venture, a venture studio in Bali building deep-tech startups. Launched EX Academy to pass on 30 years of hard-won knowledge to the next generation — because the workforce is transforming and this generation needs real skills, not just degrees.
Backed By & Worked With
What 30 Years of Building & Failing Taught Him
These aren't theories from a textbook. These are principles forged in the fire of building real companies, raising real money, and navigating real failures.
Execution Over Everything
Nobody cares about your degree. Nobody cares about your business plan. The only thing that matters is what you ship. Our students learn to execute at a pace that shocks them — and then they realize that's the only speed that works.
Rapid Transformation
Our students do in one week what universities take years to teach. Not because we cut corners, but because we strip away everything that doesn't matter and focus entirely on what does: building, failing, learning, repeating.
Resilience in the Failing Economy
Most projects will only last weeks or months. Most startups will fail. That's not pessimism — that's reality. The skill isn't avoiding failure. It's learning to keep pushing, to adapt your mindset weekly, to break open crusted-up structures.
AI-Ready Mindset
AI is going to completely disrupt the workforce. The question isn't whether — it's when. Julien is passing on the skill set to adapt: how to leverage AI, how to innovate at rapid pace, how to stay relevant when everything around you is changing.
AI Will Change Everything.
Are You Ready?
Julien has a deep worry about the future — and it's not abstract. He's watched AI evolve from a research curiosity to a force that's already eliminating jobs, reshaping industries, and making traditional career paths obsolete.
The students coming out of universities today carry enormous debt and, in many cases, none of the skills the new economy actually demands. They've been taught to follow processes, not to create them. To optimize existing systems, not to build new ones from scratch.
That's why EX Academy exists.
It's not a vacation program. It's not a gap year adventure. It's an intensive, no-excuses training ground where students learn to adapt startups at superhuman speed, change their mindset on a weekly basis, and execute relentlessly — because in the new economy, execution is the only currency that matters.
Students consistently say they accomplish more in a single week at EX Academy than they did in entire semesters at university. That's not marketing — that's the reality of what happens when you remove the bureaucracy and focus entirely on doing.