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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

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Resources built from experience no one else has

YC’s First Batch Director

Amy spent nearly five years inside YC - embedded with thousands of the world’s best startup founders, running an accelerator program to support them through every stage of early growth.

~10,000+ Founders Supported

The Founder Coach

YC’s In-House Founder Coach

Amy noticed that founders couldn't fully absorb YC’s advice because they were overwhelmed, stressed, and lacked specialized support. Amy rolled founder coaching into her role at YC - offering resources designed to support founders as their startups grew. Scale Yourself is what that work became.

~2,000+ Founders Coached

Psychology

Licensed Psychotherapist

Most coaches get certified in a weekend. Amy was a psychotherapist before YC hired her, and trained for nine years to gain her clinical license. Scale Yourself is based on a deep understanding of the unique psychology powering the world’s best startup founders.

Licensed CA MFT

Coaching and content for the founder your startup is calling you to become

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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Founder Coach Matchmaking

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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Processing Your Emotions is a Competitive Advantage

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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Trusted by the world’s best founders

  • "I see my life as existing in two halves: Pre-Amy, and Post-Amy."

    MICHAEL SEIBEL - MANAGING DIRECTOR, Y COMBINATOR

  • "Amy reveals elegant, values-aligned solutions I otherwise would have missed. She's a great partner — we owe a share of Safetywing's success to Amy's wisdom."

    SONDRE RASCH - CEO, SAFETYWING (YC W18) & KONSUS (YC W16)

  • "Amy's breadth and depth of experience has been instrumental in helping me scale as a founder. She's a skillful, deliberate partner in my personal and professional growth."

    ELI BROWN - CEO, GUILDED - YC S17

  • "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."

    SASHA KLIZHENTAS - CTO, TELEPORT (YC S15) & MAILGUN (YC W11)

  • "Working with Amy is the single most important decision I've made as a founder. Her support gives me clarity, confidence, and calm. And most critically, I've never felt alone on my journey."

    TOM BRUNSKILL - CEO, FORAGE - YC W19

  • "YC healed my startup. Amy healed me as a founder."

    VRINDA GUPTA — CEO, SEQUIN — YC S21