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Learn to Scale Yourself
Build the emotional, management, and leadership skills you need to scale at the speed of your startup
Coaching and resources for the internal work of building a startup
Scaling a startup puts relentless pressure on the person running it. Scale Yourself gives you the frameworks, tools, and coaching to manage that pressure, strengthen your relationships, and lead through every stage of growth - built from a decade of working with thousands of YC founders.
Created by Amy Buechler - licensed psychotherapist and former Y Combinator Batch Director
The User Manual for Founder Psychology
A library of frameworks and tools built from a decade of coaching YC founders - covering everything from processing hard emotions to navigating cofounder conflict and leading through hypergrowth.
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Get matched with a trusted, vetted founder coach in 3 days. Our coaches are ex-founders and operators who've made the jump to coaching - they understand your stage, your challenges, and what it takes to grow through them.
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Great founders don’t suppress their emotion - they use it as data. When they do, founders make clearer decisions, build confidence, move faster and more sustainably - and lead with trust when it matters most.
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SONDRE RASCH - CEO, SAFETYWING (YC W18) & KONSUS (YC W16)
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"Amy guided my transition from being the founder of a small team into becoming an effective, compassionate СТО of a globally-distributed enterprise engineering team experiencing hypergrowth."
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