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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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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.
Anxious <3 Avoidant: Know your Attachment Style
You and your cofounder fight — that's normal. How you fight is determined by your attachment styles, and most founders have no idea what theirs is. Here's how to find out.
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.