This VC-Turned-Coach Makes Tech's Top CEOs Cry

Wow, that's harsh. And I don't take that point of view at all, if you read his history, he's done plenty.

There is a long tradition of this sort of thing, when I was starting up my company Bob Young (redhat) gave me a lot of advice, he was like your Dad is, ahead of you and knows what to do in a lot of situations where only experience helps you. I've seen that a bunch on an ad-hoc basis, this seems like a formalization of the same thing.

My reaction to the article was "huh, I took early retirement, don't really want to work, but if these guys could use me, I'd do that." It's a pay it forward kind of thing, us old folks still have a little value.

And most (all?) founders will tell you how lonely it becomes to be in charge. I had a great boss ~25 years ago who said "30 seconds of indecision will put you backwards 3 months". He was right, but it leaves you with noone to talk to about that indecision. This guy seems like the guy you could talk to and work out the things that you can't discuss with your team.