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Scaling Founders

by Amy Buechler

Real stories of how startup founders grow as their companies scale. Hosted by Amy Buechler, a psychotherapist and Y Combinator’s first Batch Director who has coached thousands of the world’s best startup founders.Each episode is a founder telling the real story of what it feels like to run a venture-backed startup - and how they’ve had to grow to meet the pressure, the loneliness, the opportunity, and the stakes. Almost every founder believes they’re the only one experiencing the intensity - but this show is an intimate look at what’s actually shared.

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  1. "No one knows my business better than I do," with Tom Brunskill

    Most founders expect the pressure to ease once the product starts working. For Tom Brunskill, CEO and founder of Forage (YC W19), it did the opposite: the more the product and company grew, the more people needed something from him, and the more he organized himself around giving it to them. He...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Real stories of how startup founders grow as their companies scale. Hosted by Amy Buechler, a psychotherapist and Y Combinator’s first Batch Director who has coached thousands of the world’s best startup founders.Each episode is a founder telling the real story of what it feels like to run a venture-backed startup - and how they’ve had to grow to meet the pressure, the loneliness, the opportunity, and the stakes. Almost every founder believes they’re the only one experiencing the intensity - but this show is an intimate look at what’s actually shared.

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Amy Buechler

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Real stories of how startup founders grow as their companies scale. Hosted by Amy Buechler, a psychotherapist and Y Combinator’s first Batch Director who has coached thousands of the world’s best startup founders.Each episode is a founder telling the real story of what it feels like to run a...

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