Founder coaching for venture-backed startups
Titan matches Series A to C founders with a coach who built a $100M+ ARR company or coached six founders to unicorn, whether the seat is CEO, CTO or COO.
- 98%of founders Titan places stay with their coach for 12 months or longer
- <1%of founders have asked to switch coaches in the first six months
- 3 hrsof your time from application to a signed coach, discovery call and trial sessions included
- <3%of the 1,600 coaches Titan interviewed were accepted into the network
Who founder coaching is for
Titan is a founder coaching service for venture-backed companies, for every founder who runs part of one: the CEO, the CTO, the COO. The coaches are founders and early executives who held those seats and scaled a startup themselves, or coached the founders who did. Most founders come to Titan in the months after a Series A or B closes, when the board changes and the first executive hires are due; two in three Titan founders are at Series A or B when they start.
First-time CEOs, CTOs and COOs
You found product-market fit and the job changed under you. The company now needs a CEO who runs it, a CTO who runs engineering instead of writing it, a COO who runs the machine. Nobody taught you how, and a coach who has made that exact climb shortens it.
Technical founders stepping up
You can build the product. Hiring executives, running a board, leading sixty engineers instead of six, setting strategy: a different skill, and a coach who made the same transition, as a founder-CEO or as a CTO, shortens it.
Founding teams scaling from 15 to 150
The problems become people problems: co-founder conflict, the first executive layer, accountability, your own time. Each founder on the team gets their own coach, matched to their seat. This is where founder coaching pays back fastest.
What founders work on with a Titan coach
A startup coach is not there to teach leadership in the abstract. Founders bring the fight they are in this quarter. In Titan's last 80 discovery calls, six in ten founders came in with a focus problem, half with a hard conversation they were avoiding, and half with founder burnout. These are the eight areas, and the questions, that founders most often work through with a Titan coach.
01Clear strategy
- Do we have the right strategy?
- Are we doing too many things?
- What should I do about X?
02A team of A players
- Do I have the right people?
- Are they in the right roles?
- What should my role be?
03Everyone aligned
- Does my team know what is important?
- How do I get the team on board with what is next?
- What do I do about my co-founder?
04Clear expectations
- Are my expectations unreasonable?
- How do I approach this hard conversation?
- Should I delegate this or do it myself?
05A culture of accountability
- How do I get my team to care more?
- How do I get more off my plate?
- Why am I involved in everything?
06Visibility and trust
- Why do I feel like I am flying blind?
- How do I get visibility without having to ask?
- How can I trust my team when I am gone?
07Time and energy
- How do I make time for the important stuff?
- How do I avoid burning out?
- How can I fix any of this when I have no time?
08Effective leadership
- Is my leadership holding the company back?
- What is my unique leadership style?
- Should I trust my gut on this one?
Executive coaching for founders
An executive coach for startups is a different hire from an executive coach for a Fortune 500 VP. Most executive coaching is built for executives inside large companies: a credentialed coach, a 360 review, a leadership framework. A founder's problems are different. As CEO you set the strategy, hire the first executives and manage the board. As CTO you turn a team of six engineers into sixty and stop writing the code yourself. As COO you build the machine that runs without the founders in every room. And all of you still ship. The useful coach is someone who has held that seat, and Titan is process agnostic about how they coach: no single methodology, no program.