Co-Founder Session
Online sessions for co-founders in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, and Norway.
The founding relationship is the one nobody schedules time for. A co-founder session makes room to work on how the two of you decide, disagree, and divide the weight — before the company starts routing around it.
Sometimes called co-founder therapy, this is coaching for founding partners — both of you in the room, working on the relationship the company depends on.
For the partnership, not the product
Equity, titles and roadmaps are usually where it surfaces. The work starts somewhere else: how the two of you actually talk when the stakes are high and the information is incomplete.
A room with no cap table in it
Neutral ground, outside the standup and the board meeting, where either of you can say the thing that has been sitting unsaid for two quarters.
How the work unfolds
Name the pattern
We map the conversations that keep stalling — the decisions that get reopened, the resentment that arrives disguised as process, the subject you both steer around.
Slow the disagreement down
Together we look for a way to hold a position without it costing the relationship, and to concede without quietly keeping score.
Agree how you will decide
You leave with explicit terms for the next hard call: who owns it, what disagreement is allowed to look like, and how the two of you repair afterwards.
What co-founders work toward
Decisions that stay decided
Fewer calls reopened a month later with the same two arguments.
Disagreement without damage
Argue hard about the work without spending the relationship to do it.
Terms said out loud
Put words to what the two of you have so far only assumed about each other.
Frequently asked questions
How much does co-founder coaching cost?
US$170 for a 60-minute online session with both founders present. There is a free 15-minute consultation first and no minimum engagement. Co-founder coaching in San Francisco and New York →
Do you offer co-founder coaching in San Francisco?
Yes. Aether Practice works online with founding teams across the San Francisco Bay Area, scheduled in Pacific time, with both founders in the session. A 60-minute session is US$170, with a free 15-minute consultation first.
Do you work with founding teams in New York?
Yes. Aether Practice works online with founding teams across New York City, scheduled in Eastern time, with both founders in the session. A 60-minute session is US$170, with a free 15-minute consultation first.
Is co-founder coaching the same as co-founder therapy?
People use both names for the same thing: both founders in the room, working on the partnership. What we offer is coaching for a working relationship, not clinical care, focused on how you decide, disagree and divide responsibility.
How many sessions do co-founders need?
It depends on what is stuck. One avoided conversation can move in one or two sessions; a conflict that has built for years takes longer. Some teams come twice, others keep a standing session for a quarter.
The founding relationship deserves the attention the company gets.
Book an initial co-founder session and start with the conversation you have both been postponing.
Guides for founding teams
What we have written about the founding partnership — start with the complete guide, or go straight to the situation you are in.
Co-founder conflict: the complete guide
The six patterns behind most founding-team breakdowns, and what actually repairs a partnership.
Twelve warning signs your co-founder relationship is in trouble
The observable symptoms, ranked from ordinary to serious, with what each one means and what to do.
The 50/50 deadlock
Why an even split with no tiebreaker stalls a company, and four ways to break it without touching the cap table.
When one co-founder stops pulling their weight
Burnout, mismatch, disengagement or quiet departure: how to tell them apart and raise it before resentment decides for you.
Renegotiating co-founder equity
How to reopen a split that no longer matches reality, framed as correcting a forecast rather than settling a score.
Co-founder breakup: separating without killing the company
How to tell a finished partnership from a long bad stretch, and the sequence that protects the company if it is over.
Mediation, coaching or a lawyer: what each one fixes
What each specialist changes, what each costs, and how to tell which one your founding team needs.
Co-founder coaching in San Francisco and New York
What it is, how it differs from co-founder therapy and executive coaching, what it costs, and how to choose.
The co-founder agreement you never wrote
Thirty questions to settle with your co-founder before the company tests them.
Co-founder conflict glossary
Twenty-five terms founding teams use for conflict and its repair, defined in a sentence or two each.
Co-founder couples: when your business partner is your spouse
For married co-founders, where the business conversation and the intimate one have to be held apart.