I now help other founders

Zowie Langdon

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I've been building a cool group of founders and operators lately. And writing a few small angel cheques while building my own product. All of that is new to me, and it's been rewarding.

It's been especially fun to have 1 hour coffees and see other founders' trajectory change tangibly (some sold their business where they wanted to give up, others changed hiring completely, or resolved complex tax stuff).

If you measure a successful day by output, course correcting one another that way is extremely high value.

I realized I have some perspective to offer. I didn't know that before. But 10+ years, dozens of codebases, startups and people further, I guess you do learn a thing or two.

Specifically in these topics:

  • Hiring
  • What proper cloud infrastructure looks like at your specific stage
  • Developing an architecture
  • Leadership for specific teams and personalities
  • Resolving founder/board conflict
  • Having difficult conversations (firing, feedback)
  • Security principles in the software development lifecycle
  • AI in modern businesses
  • Founder relationships (especially as a CTO)
  • Making introductions to good engineers in my network

I also realized I really enjoy helping out this way. It's epic and I learn a lot.

So I'm trying a new thing; I'll help other startup people with the above problems for max 4 hours per week - because that amount feels like play, and not work.

2 hours are taken, and 2 are still free. Compensation is all up for discussion.