Executive coaching for technical founders
I’m Eric Weiss, an executive coach for technical founders at Series A and B SaaS and AI companies. I’m a former founder and CTO who built the PlayStation Network, and for 15 years I’ve helped engineers and builders become the CEO or CTO their company needs.
Sound familiar?
Technical founders are usually the best builders in the company. That’s how you got here, and it’s exactly what stops working as the company grows.
What we work on
Delegate the work you’re best at, decide faster, and own your calendar again.
Hire and develop leaders who move in lockstep with you, and stop the politics between factions.
Run the board instead of reporting to it, and tell a story investors buy into.
Find product-market fit and build the engine that scales it, from the author of Growth by Design.
Results
Sempre Health
Coached the CEO and CTO through the move from founders to executives: board management, hiring, and the fundraising story.
Sendlane
Coached the co-founders through conflict, flat growth, and a product process that kept changing direction.
OpenAI
Coached the platform engineering leaders who took GPT-3 from a research artifact to a product under real load.
“Having Eric as my executive coach has been more valuable than my Harvard MBA.”
Justin WielandFounder and CEO, Reach Technologies“Eric helped me embrace my role as a strategic CEO and lead the company with clarity and focus.”
Anurati MathurFounder and CEO, Sempre Health“Eric bridges that gap between technical excellence and leadership effectiveness in a way that just makes sense to engineering and product minds. The ROI is clear if you’re ready to do the work.”
Josh KellyCTO and Co-Founder, Flexpa“Eric is an absolutely incredible mentor, coach, and friend. If you get the chance to work with him, do it.”
Jack BurlinsonCEO, StageglassFounders I’ve coached are backed by General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, GV, Bessemer, Battery, Menlo, Founders Fund, Y Combinator, and Lux.
How it works
90-minute sessions every two weeks, calls in between, a CEO Scorecard at kickoff, and a 90-day plan. Three-month minimum.
From $5,000 a month
Co-founder coaching, strategic offsites, and fundraising preparation are scoped on the Clarity Call.
FAQ
Because your strength is the bottleneck. A coach who has been an engineer, product leader, and CTO understands the work well enough to help you let go of it, build an executive team, and run the board and the raise.
Someone who has built and scaled technology, works mostly with technical founders after product-market fit, and can show outcomes in hiring, fundraising, and team alignment.
1:1 executive coaching starts at $5,000 a month, with a three-month minimum.
Post-product-market-fit companies at Series A or B, roughly 10 to 50 people, where the founder has become the bottleneck.