Joe Kahn-Wicht

About

I coach startup founders and investors to hit peak performance without sacrificing personal wellbeing. Coaching is a distillation of my favorite parts of investing and company-building: making informed bets, exploring the art of possibility, and helping teams thrive and grow. My clients range from solo founders just getting started to CEOs with 100s of employees. Most have raised $20m+, operate in complex industries, and are navigating the shift from early signs of product-market fit to repeatable growth. They are backed by world-class investors—including a16z, Founders Fund, Sequoia, and Thrive Capital—and work on everything from AI doctors to fintech infrastructure and enterprise AI transformation. I keep my perspective sharp by staying in the arena. I've sat on both sides of the table—as a venture-backed founder at Karuna, an investor at Thrive Capital, and somewhere in between at Forus, where I led the seed investment and have worked with founder Sahir Jaggi on fundraising, recruiting, and strategy from day one. Forus has since raised over $300m, most recently at a $3bn valuation, from Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Accel, and Bain Capital Ventures. Over the last decade, I’ve worked with exceptional coaches and teachers who helped transform my wins and losses into fuel for growth. That journey revealed how company building can be both a path of personal transformation and a force for human flourishing. Coaching founders is my way of paying that forward, supporting leaders whose work expands what’s possible for themselves and the world. I live in Brooklyn with my wife, an investment banker turned psychotherapist, and our supermutt, Blue.

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