Founders Under Pressure: How to Lead Adults When You’re Tired and the Numbers Are Loud
A live conversation for B2B SaaS founders carrying the weight of the company — and still expected to show up sharp for their team and their board.
About this event
There's a version of this job nobody puts in the pitch deck. The board meeting where you held it together but barely. The week the pipeline dried up and three people came to you with personal problems on the same day. The moment you realized you were making decisions from a place of exhaustion rather than clarity — and the company was starting to feel it.
Leadership under pressure isn't a soft topic. It's a performance variable. How a CEO regulates under stress directly shapes how their team makes decisions, how their board reads the room, and how long the company can sustain the pace.
Yannick is joined by a special guest — a founder, executive coach, or performance psychologist with direct experience helping CEOs lead through high-pressure cycles. Guest details will be confirmed shortly.
We'll cover:
What happens to decision-making quality when a founder is running on empty — and how to catch it before it costs you
Practical ways to regulate your nervous system under board and fundraising pressure without checking out
How to stay genuinely present for your team when your own situation is uncertain
The difference between founders who sustain high performance across cycles and those who flame out at the worst moment
Then we open the floor. This Q&A goes wherever the room needs it to go.
Format: 25-min conversation + 15-min live Q&A
Who this is for: B2B SaaS and applied AI founders at any stage — and the operators, coaches, and investors who work closely with them.
Your Host
Yannick Kpodar is a 2x VP/CMO turned General Partner at Aventra Capital and founder of Full Stack CEO™. Over 15+ years, he's helped B2B SaaS teams raise $396M+, reach unicorn valuation, and scale from single-digit ARR to $45M+ across the US and Europe. He's also lived the other side — board pressure, toxic environments, an identity collapse that forced a full rebuild. That experience is part of why Full Stack CEO™ exists: because the inner operating system of the CEO is as critical as the metrics on the dashboard.
About Full Stack CEO™
Full Stack CEO™ is the operating system for B2B SaaS & AI founders from first revenue to $25M ARR — GTM, metrics, capital, and leadership built for the age of AI. The community, Labs, and advisory are built around one idea: that the founders who win are the ones who can read the whole system, not just the function they grew up in.
Members get direct access to a room of serious peers, weekly working sessions with Yannick, and live AMAs with the operators, exited founders, and VCs behind the program.