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The User Manual for Founder Psychology
Drawn from thousands of hours coaching YC Founders, The User Manual for Founder Psychology contains essays and practical frameworks that help founders build resilience, trust, and authentic leadership as their startups scale.
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The Three Types of Feedback
There are only three kinds of feedback a founder ever needs to drive performance or correct behavior. Three scripts to memorize. Three tools that will make you a superhuman manager. Here they are.
Delegating
Successful delegation isn't hand-holding and it isn't abandonment. It's a specific knowledge transfer with a defined structure. Here's exactly what that structure looks like — and why most founders get it wrong.
The Founder Sync
Most cofounder conflict isn't a relationship problem — it's a process problem. The Founder Sync is a weekly check-in structure designed to keep cofounders aligned, reduce relationship debt, and actually talk about trust before things get hard.
Relationship Debt & the Level 3 Conversation
Like technical debt, relationship debt accumulates when founding teams avoid hard conversations. And like technical debt, it eventually becomes the thing that kills the company.
How to Build Trust
Trust isn't binary. It's a fluid that builds or depletes in every interaction. Here's a framework for understanding exactly what creates it — and what quietly destroys it.
Tough Conversation Starter Pack
Cofounder conflict isn't the problem. Avoiding it is. This is a practical starter pack of the most common topics cofounders avoid — and a framework for finally talking about them.
Guide to Effective Feedback
Most feedback backfires because it's vague, personal, or poorly timed. Here's the criteria for feedback that actually lands — with examples, a simple framework, and the language to make it work.