Matt Mochary
CEO Coach @ Mochary Method
Premier Silicon Valley CEO coach to leaders at OpenAI, Coinbase, Reddit, Notion, and Rippling.
βFire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation, covering team leadership, startup building, and consumer products.β
Career History
| Company | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Mochary Method | CEO Coach | ~2012-present |
| Mochary Films | Producer & Director | ~2004-2010 |
| Totality Corporation (acquired by MCI) | Co-Founder | 1999-2005 |
| Spectrum Equity Investors | Investor | ~1996-1999 |
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βIt's been a ton of fun and for me, I do things for joy and each and every one of these interactions has been massively joyful for me and the people I coach become my really close friends, so it's all ...β
How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation | Matt Mochary (CEO coach)
βThat whole process started about 10 years ago, so about 10 years.β
How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation | Matt Mochary (CEO coach)
βI'm human. Yes, and that's why I try to figure it out with me and if I can figure something out with me, then I can share it with others.β
How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation | Matt Mochary (CEO coach)
βWei Deng from Clipboard Health. She's the most compassionate.β
How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation | Matt Mochary (CEO coach)
βThat's right. CEO's a little safer. The prediction for Alex is that he will at some point, unfortunately die.β
How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation | Matt Mochary (CEO coach)
βThat is the hardest part. Now, what I've done is I'm similar. During my top goal time, I have somebody sit with me and they prevent me from doing anything but my top goal.β
How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation | Matt Mochary (CEO coach)
βIf your personality is like mine, yes, have someone there. It can be remote, it can be in person, it doesn't matter. In person's a little bit more effective.β
How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation | Matt Mochary (CEO coach)
βI have my kids do it. They love it.β
How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation | Matt Mochary (CEO coach)
βIn my portfolio, I know Scale and Attentive Mobile are both doing this well. More and more companies that I coach are starting to do this because I have more and more examples of it working well, so m...β
How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation | Matt Mochary (CEO coach)
βThere are four zones I posit and I learned this from Diana Chapman at Conscious Leadership Group. I don't know where she learned it from, but almost everything that I have, I poached from somebody, bu...β
How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation | Matt Mochary (CEO coach)
βZone one is your incompetence, you're not good at it, someone's better at it than you. That's like fixing a car. You should let someone else do that.β
How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation | Matt Mochary (CEO coach)
βSecond is your zone of competence, you're fine, you can do it fine. But so can somebody else do it fine. Like cleaning your house. Yes, you could do it, but it would take a lot of time and you're not ...β
How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation | Matt Mochary (CEO coach)