CEO coaching for VC-backed scale-ups
Coaching that scales you as fast as your company.
Anastasia, CEO of CreativeX
Adrian, CEO of LaserHub
Founder Coach® helps venture-backed founder-CEOs align their teams and grow faster. Start with the CEO Focus Finder™, a free 5-minute assessment that pinpoints what we'd work on together first.
✓ Free✓ 5 minutes✓ Instant results
Sandrine, CEO of Vinterior
Malte, CEO of Parloa
Our CEOs are backed by the world's top venture funds.
A personal welcome from Dave
You've built a great product, raised capital, and hired brilliant people.
So why does it still feel so slow?
Behind the scenes, you know you're making it up as you go. At some point, how fast you learn becomes the bottleneck. Here are three things I hear from almost every CEO I coach:
I'm not sure what my role should be
The company keeps changing, and your job keeps changing with it. Nobody hands you the new description, and it's strangely hard to write your own.
I want to be a better leader to my team
You care about your people, and you know they deserve your best. Between the pressure and the pace, you don't always get to give it.
I can't keep going on like this
You're carrying more than anyone sees, and enjoying it less than anyone knows. Something has to change before something breaks.
How the CEO Focus Finder™ works
It starts with five minutes, not a 30-minute call.
Rate yourself
Score yourself, honestly, against twelve statements of CEO excellence, drawn from years of coaching venture-backed CEOs.
Set one priority
Your results show your focus areas across the CEO role. You weigh them up and set one priority.
Get guidance from Dave
Receive Dave's guidance on how to approach it, so you know exactly where to start.
Anastasia, CEO of CreativeX, taking the Focus Finder™
Frameworks are more powerful than conversations.
A few years ago, I asked one of my most successful CEOs what made the biggest difference in our work together. He didn't say the conversations. He said the visual frameworks.
That answer stuck with me. A good framework untangles a problem you've been circling for months. It surfaces the blind spot before it derails you. And it gives your team a shared language, so you stop explaining the same thing twice.
I've built over 500 of them, because what a scaling CEO needs isn't more advice. It's tools. And the best part is what happens next: every framework you learn, you can teach. It starts with you. The impact is company-wide.
Dave Bailey
CEO of Founder Coach®
The Founder Leadership Model™. Use it to find your bottleneck, then apply the frameworks to solve it faster.
What CEOs say
300+ founders backed by the world's top venture funds have used the system to scale.
“Founder Coach gives me frameworks I can use with my team… it feels like cheating, but it's incredibly effective.”
“Dave has been key to my growth as a CEO during Parloa's rapid scale-up.”
“Dave isn't just a coach, he's a founder. And that makes all the difference.”
“I'm a better CEO thanks to Dave. The feedback I get from my family, investors, and team says it all.”
Meet Dave Bailey, coach to the world's most ambitious CEOs.
Dave founded three venture-backed companies. One failed. One was acquired. And one, Delivery Hero, became a unicorn. He spent over a decade in the trenches before coaching founders through the same challenges he faced: the moments of feeling out of your depth, when the company is growing faster than you are.
He's coached 300+ founders, built 500+ visual frameworks, and his essays on founder leadership are read by more than 10,000 founders and investors.
You scaled your product. You scaled your team. Now it's time to scale you.
Take the Focus Finder™ and see where you're strong, where you're stuck, and what we'd work on together first.
✓ Free✓ 5 minutes✓ Instant results
