Learn to Scale Yourself

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

The coaching, content, and resources that power the world’s best startup founders from seed stage through IPO.

Built by Y Combinator’s first Batch Director and in-house Founder Coach, Amy Buechler.

Amy is a licensed psychotherapist who’s coached thousands of the world’s best startup founders. The Founder Coach brings insights from Amy's unique training and experience together in one library of resources designed to help founders scale themselves.

Learn how to use your emotions, build high-trust relationships, and become a skilled manager and authentic leader as you lead a team aligned with your highest vision.

Explore how every challenge in your startup can become an advantage as you become the most emotionally resilient, ambitious, and effective founder on the planet.

Trusted by the world’s best founders

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A monthly subscription that enables the growth of startup founders from seed stage through IPO. Master your emotions, build high-trust, effective relationships and become an effective manager and leader.

Scale yourself with content, events, and a private Slack that means your growth will never bottleneck your startup's.

✓ A private Slack community for direct access to Amy

✓ The User Manual for Founder Psychology with weekly content drops designed to scale founders

✓ Video library with guides and quick advice when you need it

✓ Group Office Hours for live coaching with Amy

Meet the founders we’ve supported

  • "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

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