✦ Trusted by 1000+ YC Founders

Learn to Scale Yourself

Build the emotional, management, and leadership skills you need to scale at the speed of your startup

The Founder Coach is built by Amy Buechler, the psychotherapist who coached thousands of the world’s best startup founders at Y Combinator

Amy has spent a decade coaching thousands of YC founders through the internal challenges that rapid external growth requires. 

The Founder Coach is built directly from Amy’s work: the patterns she’s seen, the breakthroughs she’s witnessed, and the hard-but-right conversations that she’s seen transform startups from the inside out.

These resources are designed to help you learn to use your emotions, build strong relationships, and lead with authenticity as you scale into one of the most ambitious and effective founders on the planet.

The coaching and content that powers the world’s fastest-scaling founders, from seed through IPO

The User Manual for Founder Psychology

Explore our flagship guide to mastering founder psychology. Learn step-by-step how to build resilience, strengthen your cofounder relationship, and lead with authenticity as your startup grows.

Founder Coaching

Get matched with a dedicated coach who can help you lead with confidence, avoid burnout, and build high-performing teams.

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The Three Types of Feedback

Founders only need to learn how to give three types of feedback to become a superhuman manager: Performance Feedback, Relationship Feedback, and Culture Feedback

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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