EXECUTIVE COACHING FOR THE FOUNDERS BUILDING THE FUTURE.

I’m Eric Weiss. I coach technical founders at venture-backed companies through the board, the executive team, the next raise, and everything else nobody taught them.

Coaching leaders at the companies building the future

I've done the job you're doing now.

I built the PlayStation Network, ran a startup as CTO, and spent nearly three years inside OpenAI as it scaled. For more than 15 years I’ve coached technical founders through the hard parts of growth: the first board fight, the executive who isn’t working out, the raise that has to land. If you’re stuck in the weeds, struggling to lead a team that’s outgrown you, or running on empty, I can help.

Testimonials

Eric has been an outstanding executive coach who has helped me successfully navigate rapidly scaling an engineering team at a growth-stage tech company. He brings a great balance of empathy, accountability, and an extensive set of tools to navigate a wide variety of challenges on a growing team.

David Fullerton

EVP Engineering, Heap

The techniques I learned from Eric help me set correct goals and helped me build a practice that enabled focus to achieve those goals. He helped me find tactics that seem small but add up to big change, all from a perspective of empathy, mindfulness, and combating the burnout endemic in startup life. Eric got me more energized with less stress, which means more value for my company and our customers.

James McKernan

SVP Technology, Pathpoint

Eric is an excellent product strategist who understands the whole ecosystem of product development. The products he works on have a higher chance of succeeding because they are developed with a clear understanding of users and how to meet their needs. I highly recommend him for any organization that needs expertise driving product design.

Dr. Bryan Rill

CEO, Insights Design

Having Eric as my executive coach has been more valuable than my Harvard MBA.

Justin Wieland

Founder & CEO, Reach Technologies

Eric is an exceptional executive coach. It was a perfect fit for me because he has an extensive experience as a CTO. We worked on a vast range of problems from recruiting and team motivation to goal setting and coaching engineering leaders within the company.

Evgeny Belorusets

CTO, Archive

I would absolutely recommend Eric to any software development company.

Larry Heminger

VP of Technology, ecoATM

Eric has a very deep knowledge when it comes to product, UX, and strategy. His coaching has completely transformed the way I approach our product strategy and processes.

Zak Meftah

Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Sendlane

Eric consistently provided great insights and ideas and was relentless in his pursuit to continuously improve the way we worked. I would unequivocally recommend Eric to any technology executive.

Larry Xu

VP of Software Development, Tealium

Eric has a unique combination of having first-hand experience as a product and technology leader. His perspective and advice were very valuable as we worked to take our product and tech organizations to the next level. If you want to grow as a leader - I recommend reaching out to Eric.

Alexis Smirnov

Co-Founder & CTO, Dialogue

Eric is an absolutely incredible mentor, coach, and friend. If you get the chance to work with him, do it. I truly cannot recommend him enough.

From hiring the best engineering leaders, to building insightful product feedback loops, to building both company-wide and personal habits -- I could not be more grateful to have his help.

Jack Burlinson

CEO, Stageglass

Executive Coaching Case Studies

In this case study, I’ll show you how I helped the hottest company in a generation transform from a chaotic team of mad scientists into a global platform powerhouse.

In this case study, I’ll show you how I helped a hyper-growth healthcare SaaS company to master the art of scaling.

In this case study, I’ll show you how I coached a fast-growing marketing automation platform to overcome three key existential crises at once.

In this case study, I’ll show you how I coached a large, over-burdened engineering organization to take ownership of and improve their leadership, teamwork, process, and operations.

Meet Eric Weiss

Eric spent two decades building technology at Sony, Raytheon, and Qualcomm, served as a startup CTO, and spent nearly three years inside OpenAI coaching the platform engineering leaders who took its models from the lab to production. He has coached more than 75 founders and technical leaders, and his clients have raised more than $100M.

THE FULL-STACK AI OPERATING SYSTEM.

A bootcamp for technical founders who want their company to run on AI the way their product runs on code. Starts January 2027. Capped at 15 founders.

You built a company. Now it's running you.

You became the bottleneck because you’re too good at execution to let go. Above the Chaos is the Stoic operating system that gets you out of firefighting and back to leading. Get the eBook and the 64-page workbook, free for a limited time.

Eric is the author of Above the Chaos, a Stoic playbook for founders who became the bottleneck, and Growth by Design, a founder’s operating system for earning product-market fit.