Eric Weiss · Executive coach to technical founders
You founded your company because you wanted to build something customers love. Now you spend your days in back-to-back meetings instead of innovating, managing underperformers instead of leading A-players, and fighting fires instead of building toward the future. And it’s costing you your health, your relationships, and your sanity.
Start leading with clarity, conviction, and confidence.
Show me where I’m stuckThe Scaling Assessment gives you a written diagnosis of the patterns that are throttling your growth, in 5 minutes.
Coaching the executives building the future
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The problem
Nothing moves forward without you, and you can’t let go of anything.
Strong personalities each running their own faction, and politics prevent progress.
What worked with a small team and a small customer base is coming apart at the seams.
How it works
Five minutes, and you get a written diagnosis of where you’re stuck.
Thirty minutes on the problem that keeps you up at night, and whether I’m the right person to help you solve it.
One on one, or with a small cohort of founders. We start with a 90 day engagement, and continue if we both feel we’re a fit.
Meet Eric
I’m Eric Weiss, an executive coach for technical founders and CTOs at Series A and B venture-backed SaaS and AI companies. I’m a former founder and CTO who built the PlayStation Network, I coached OpenAI’s platform engineering team from 2019 to 2022, and I wrote Above the Chaos and Growth by Design.
For 15 years I’ve coached founders and executives through their growing pains: fundraising, talent, alignment, scaling operations, C-suite conflict, and founder burnout. I’ve spent 20 years in the trenches, so I speak your language. My coaching is pragmatic, direct, and immediately actionable.
Other coaches want to make you cry, I want to make you win.
Coaching for CTOs · technical founders · SaaS leaders
Proof
“Having Eric as my executive coach has been more valuable than my Harvard MBA.”
Justin WielandFounder and CEO, Reach Technologies“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.”
Alexis SmirnovCo-Founder and CTO, Dialogue“Eric has been an outstanding executive coach who has helped me rapidly scale my team. He brings a great balance of empathy, accountability, and an extensive set of tools.”
David FullertonCTO, HeapTwo ways to work together
One on One · Most founders start here
Biweekly sessions with me, ad hoc help between them, and a 90-day plan custom built for you.
Group program
A 12-week program for founders who need a winning AI strategy for their people, product, and process. Starts January 2027, enrollment closes November 30.
Next free workshop
Wednesday, November 18. One hour, live, and you leave with an AI that works in the background, reading your context and acting on it before you ask.
Find out what’s holding you back
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