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Dan Martell
Dan Martell is a Canadian entrepreneur, angel investor, and coach who built and sold three software companies before turning his attention to teaching other founders how to scale. He is the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Buy Back Your Time, the founder of the SaaS coaching business SaaS Academy, and an early backer of companies including Intercom, Udemy, and Hootsuite. He now runs Martell Ventures, a studio focused on AI-driven software, and reaches millions across YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok with content on time, hiring, and business systems.
Dane Holewinski
Dane Holewinski is a San Francisco-based executive coach and former venture-backed founder who runs Decode Coaching, where he works one-on-one with startup CEOs and founders at companies like Tonal, Zendrive and RealBlocks. Before coaching, he spent more than a decade building and operating technology companies, including co-founding the mobile deep-linking startup Yozio. He now also serves as CEO & Founding Team Coach at Seen Health, a culturally focused senior-care company. His coaching blends Silicon Valley operating experience with formal training from Harvard's Bob Kegan and Lisa Lahey, and a practice grounded in meditation, exercise and breathwork.
Bill Coughran
Bill Coughran is a Partner and Founder's Coach at Sequoia Capital who spent two decades at Bell Labs - where C, Unix, and C++ were born - before scaling Google's engineering organization from a few hundred to over 10,000 people across four continents. A mathematician by training (Caltech BS/MS, Stanford PhD in Computer Science), he oversaw Chrome, YouTube, Maps, and Search at Google before joining Sequoia in 2011. He is one of Silicon Valley's most seasoned operator-turned-investors, known for his belief in small teams, deep technical rigor, and the kind of coaching that only someone who has actually built the thing can offer.