FOR STARTUP EMPLOYEES

The human playbook for an AI world

Everything startup employees need to get hired, ship fast, and thrive when everything's on fire. Built on nearly 20 years of startup patterns and 100 research citations.

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What People Are Saying

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"If we need a license to drive, we should need one to join a startup. Here it is."

Dr. Gabor Soter
AI Expert, UK

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"Finally, someone tells the truth about startup life. Greg’s been in the thick of it, and it shows."

Dan Newman
Creative Director, NZ

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"Where was this ten years ago? Seriously. Would have saved me a lot of pain."

Rui Silvestre
Startup CTO, PT

The system behind the human edge

After 15+ years in startups, watching people thrive and burn out, a pattern emerged. The people who become essential aren't doing one thing right. They're doing three things right. Together:

Attitude

How you respond when everything's uncertain. The oldest parts of your brain treat startup chaos like physical danger. Neuroscience shows you can train yourself to override that response. Optimism, resilience, agency. All trainable.

Relationships

How fast you build trust when there's no time to do so. Research on belonging and psychological safety reveals why some people become indispensable in weeks while others stay invisible for months. Trust at startup speed is a skill.

Competence

How visibly you deliver value without burning out. Not just being good at your job. Understanding how to manage yourself, your energy, your stress levels and triggers. The science of peak performance applied to startup reality.

Miss one, you're replaceable Get all three working together and you become the person they can't afford to lose.
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Built by someone who's been in the trenches

Greg Taylor has spent nearly 20 years inside startups. From employee #7 to global senior leadership, he's helped build companies through over $125 million in exits and shipped products used by millions.
Fired twice, including the week before Christmas, the day after pulling two all-nighters to nail a board presentation. That moment is what made the patterns click. He spent years validating them against 100 research citations. Now it's yours.
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