The leadership playbook for tech founders, CTOs and CEOs — operating cadence, decision-making, hiring executives, fundraising narrative, board management, and founder mode.
For: Founders, CEOs, CTOs, engineering leaders stepping up
What changes when great engineers start leading teams, companies and capital. A synthesis of the canonical leadership, management and business literature — Drucker, Grove, Christensen, Horowitz, Doerr, Camille Fournier, Will Larson, Lara Hogan, Patty McCord and more — turned into frameworks, checklists and decisions you can actually run on Monday.
What founder-CEOs actually do with their week. A field-tested cadence drawn from Andy Grove, Fred Wilson, Keith Rabois, Claire Hughes Johnson and the EOS / Scaling Up playbooks — turned into a calendar you can copy.
A wrong VP hire costs founders 12–24 months. A right one compounds for a decade. The full process — when to hire, how to write the role, source, interview, reference, close, and onboard — drawn from Horowitz, Rabois, Botha and Reid Hoffman.
Founders raise on story before metrics. A complete guide to the narrative arc, the deck, the metrics investors actually look at by stage, process design, and term sheets — synthesized from Sequoia, YC, a16z, First Round and Bessemer.
Boards amplify what you bring. How to compose your board, run a quarterly meeting that creates leverage instead of theatre, manage your investors between meetings, and use independents to get truth — built on Brad Feld, Reid Hoffman and Sequoia's playbooks.
Brian Chesky's 2024 'Founder Mode' essay landed because the standard 'hire good people and get out of their way' advice fails for founders. A practical synthesis: what to stay deep on, what to fully delegate, and the failure modes of both extremes.