Learn to Scale Yourself

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

Your Path to Scaling Yourself

Learn new skills and gain insight by exploring content in The User Manual, ask questions to deepen your learning at Group Office Hours, and get personalized guidance from an expert Founder Coach as the complexity of your startup grows.

  • The User Manual for Founder Psychology

    Ideal for: Founders laying the foundation of skills and self-awareness needed to scale

    Content that help founders scale their psychology and relationships, drawn from thousands of hours of coaching YC founders.

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  • Group Office Hours

    Ideal for: Founders with questions about deploying the advice in The User Manual

    Live group coaching with Amy where you'll learn the skills you need to overcome your toughest emotional challenges, build a strong cofounder relationship, and become an effective manager and leader.

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  • Find a Founder Coach

    Ideal for: Founders seeking in-depth, personalized guidance

    We make it easy to find an experienced Founder Coach who can optimize your growth to meet the demands of your startup.

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Deepen your learning with
Group Office Hours

Live group coaching with Amy to get support and learn the skills you need to overcome your toughest emotional and relationship challenges.

27 Sept
9-10:15am PT

Processing your emotions is a competitive advantage

All founders have feelings. Learn how to process your emotions and use your emotions as data that can give you a competitive edge.

4 Oct
9-10:15am PT

Fear, Anxiety, and Trust

Startups are high-risk moonshots, and the default emotion in startups is fear. When founders internalize this, they feel anxious, make bad decisions and suffer. Explore how fear helps you, how it hurts you, and learn to generate ‘trust’ as the counterbalance to the fear you feel as a founder.

11 Oct
9-10:15am PT

Dreams and Visions

Founders need a vision to raise money, hire, and stay motivated - and dreaming is a skill that can be mastered. This Group Office Hours breaks 'visioning' out from the mystical and turns it into an actionable skill you can master that will improve your startup (and the world).

Built by the psychotherapist who coached thousands of the world’s best startup founders at Y Combinator.

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

Created by YC’s first Batch Director and in-house Founder Coach, Amy Buechler.

These resources support and transform the founders who are building the future, so they can build the technology companies that will transform the world.

Learn 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

  • "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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