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Executive coaching for venture-backed operators at inflection points
For product-led founders and technical leaders navigating team, momentum, conflict, PMF, and the moments when the company gets bigger than your experience. Make hard decisions faster and more effectively. Build a real leadership team. Work on the company not in it. Achieve your full potential.
"Tarikh is the Rick Rubin of coaching: brilliant, supportive, demanding."
— Co-founder (acq. by Meta)
You grew the metrics, closed the round, doubled the team. Every hard decision still comes back to you.
The issues you avoided last quarter got worse, not better. Your calendar is packed, and your actual thinking happens nights and weekends. Most of your investors are checked out and the ones that aren't aren't helping. Nothing they say is as bad as what you say to yourself. You perform "confident leader" in every meeting, your team is bigger, and you're more isolated than ever.
This is the inflection point many founders hit between rounds. The company grew, but your operating system didn't. The old patterns that got you here - tenacity, relentless drive, sweating every detail, and making every call - are now the behaviors that hold you and the company back. So now what?
I work with founders at exactly this moment. I help you see your patterns, understand your role and execute it well. I help you make hard decisions faster, have the conversations you've been avoiding, and build the internal clarity to lead through the hardest days and the highest highs without burning out.
What coaching produces
Speed to the real conversation
Most founders spend months circling the
issues without making progress. This work cuts through that. We get to the hardest issue in the
first session, not the
sixth. You walk out with clarity, a plan, and the strength to follow through.
Decisions that actually get made
Strategy debates, long
meetings, shifting priorities. These are symptoms that you haven't clarified
your business and committed to the tradeoffs. We work on accountability and turn the
giant Notion doc into three
priorities with owners, deadlines, and an explicit "not doing this" list your team can repeat
without you in the room.
Internal clarity to lead sustainably
Ambition without balance produces
burnout. Balance without ambition produces stagnation. Lead powefully from a place that is
neither
reactive nor
performative.
I bring operating experience, rigorous coaching craft and twenty years of mindful presence. We start at full depth from session one and achieve tangible growth by session six.
Explore my coachingWhy clients work with me
Three things rarely coexist in one coach: real startup experience, deep presence, and world-class coaching craft. Most coaches have one, occasionally two. The combination of all three is what allows us to make real progress from the first conversation.
1. 3x venture-backed founder with real operating scar
tissue
I've raised venture capital, built products that reached millions
of users, led teams through pivots, layoffs, shutdowns, and exits. This means you never
have to simplify the problem
for me. I know the terrain.
2. 20 years of meditation-trained presence
Twenty years of
daily practice and IMTA mindfulness certification have trained a specific capacity: the
ability to hear what's actually being said underneath
the words. Surfacing your truth repeatedly in the conversation is the mechanism behind
great
coaching. It's where most coaches fall flat and how you will be challenged to bring out
your
best.
3. Reboot-lineage coaching craft
I mentored with Jerry
Colonna and the Reboot team, considered by many to be the gold standard for coaching in
startups. I'm ICF-certified with thousands of hours of experience. My craft shows up in
the precision of the questions, the space and timing of the silence, and the ability to
move
fluidly between your org chart and your inner truth without losing the thread of either.
The practical benefit: you feel seen, heard, and deeply understood from the first session.
