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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
Founders only need to learn how to give three types of feedback to become a superhuman manager: Performance Feedback, Relationship Feedback, and Culture Feedback
How to Implement Effective 1:1s
Meeting with your direct reports should be some of the highest-leverage time you spend with your team each week. Here’s how to launch 1:1s for the first time.
The Founder Sync
Founders often mistake bad relationship hygiene for a bad relationship. Schedule a Founder Sync to strengthen your relationship along with your strategy.
Delegating
Delegating is a knowledge transfer that allows you to step away from work and build trust in your team.
Guide to Performance Feedback
Giving feedback is one of the core tools in every founder’s toolbox. Founders typically need to start practicing this skill as soon as they’ve started working with a cofounder.
Anxious <3 Avoidant: Know your Attachment Style
Feeling tension rise in relationship with your cofounder is normal, healthy, and expected.
Relationship Debt & the Level 3 Conversation
Relationship debt is just like technical debt: It builds when founders avoid tough conversations and emotions, and it kills founding teams when left unchecked. Learn how a ‘Level 3 Conversation’ will clear relationship debt and keep your relationship healthy.
How to Build Trust
Trust is the invisible - but tangible - building block of relationship. Trust greases the wheel of execution and keeps relationships free of relationship debt.
Tough Conversation Starter Pack
A list of questions that cofounders commonly disagree about that you should start discussing *now*.