Business & Leadership Coaching
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What's inside
Fresh insights from the leaders building today's companies
How Stripe scales engineering. How Airbnb rebuilds culture. How Lovable ships fast with a tiny team. Thousands of lessons from the companies you want to operate like.
Curated book library
Podcasts updated weekly
Lenny's Podcast
How I Built This
Masters of Scale
Acquired
The Twenty Minute VC
The a16z Podcast
First Round Review
Y Combinator
The NFX Podcast
Startups For the Rest of Us
Leadership lessons from real companies
How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management
David A. Garvin
OpenAI
OpenAI's Failed Experiment in Governance
Noam Wasserman
Tesla
How Tesla Sets Itself Apart
Lou Shipley
Mattel
Blank Space: The Rise of Consumer Capitalism
W. David Marx
Ford
Autonomy: The History of the Future of Transportation
Lawrence D. Burns
Microsoft
How Microsoft Uses a Growth Mindset to Develop Leaders
Carol Dweck, Kathleen Hogan
Amazon
Should Your Company Sell on Amazon?
Ayelet Israeli, Leonard A. Schlesinger
Netflix
How Netflix Reinvented HR
Patty McCord
Airbnb
Airbnb's Effect on Rents and Neighborhood Culture
Kyle Barron, Edward Kung, Davide Proserpio
Spotify
Spotify: Becoming a Platform for Music and Podcasting
Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal
Uber
The Truth About How Uber's App Manages Drivers
Alex Rosenblat
Apple
A Plan Is Not a Strategy
From HBR
How it works
A coaching process that scales
Describe your situation
Ask what you'd ask a mentor who knows every company
Get advice you can trace
Every recommendation links to a specific source
Rehearse before the real thing
Practice with AI that stays in character
Walk out with a plan
Turn conversations into step-by-step playbooks
Response types
Scripts. Frameworks. Decision matrices.
Scripts
YOU
"I want to talk about the last two sprints. Specifically, the missed deadline on the API migration and the production outage on March 12."
IF THEY PUSH BACK
"I hear you — your migration work was strong. I'm not questioning your ability. I'm flagging a pattern so we can fix it together."
Decision Matrix
PLUS
Promotes high performer
Retains key talent
MINUS
Lose top IC output
No mgmt experience
INTERESTING
Could co-lead for 90 days
Mentorship pairing
Reflection Prompts
Am I giving feedback to help them, or to vent my frustration?
What would I want to hear if I were in their position?
Have I given them enough context to actually improve?
Deep Research
Research on new-manager transitions shows the first 90 days are decisive. [1] Watkins argues that new leaders must "secure early wins" while building coalitions, [2] but Goleman's work suggests emotional intelligence matters more than quick results. [3]
Capabilities
The complete toolkit
Verified Sources
Every claim backed by numbered citations
Practice Mode
Rehearse conversations with AI characters
Playbooks
Step-by-step action plans from any coaching conversation
Memory
Remembers your role and ongoing situations
Always Current
New podcast episodes indexed every week
Coaching Debriefs
SBI-structured feedback with candor
"The best leadership coaching is backed by real examples from founders and leaders who've done it before."
"If your coach can't cite sources, how do you know they're not making it up?"
"A playbook is only valuable if you can actually follow it. PathMBA gives you both the thinking and the steps."
The playbook behind the companies you admire
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