When the Metrics Are Good and You Still Feel Empty
A live conversation for founders who are still performing at a high level — and quietly paying for it.
About this event
There is a version of founder struggle that rarely gets talked about in public because, from the outside, everything still looks fine. Revenue is moving. The team is functioning. Investors are still replying. The company may even be winning by most visible measures.
And yet something inside feels off.
For some founders, success does not bring relief. It brings a different kind of disorientation. The metrics improve, but the pressure does not lift. The milestones stack up, but the sense of meaning gets thinner. You keep performing, but feel less connected to the person performing it.
This session is for that part of the story.
Yannick is joined by a special guest — a founder, executive coach, or operator with real lived experience of high performance, inner collapse, and rebuilding from a more grounded place. Guest details will be confirmed shortly.
We’ll cover:
Why external progress does not always translate into internal steadiness
What high-functioning burnout, numbness, and emotional flatness can look like in founders
How pressure changes identity, relationships, and decision-making over time
What it means to rebuild ambition, leadership, and success from a healthier center
Then we open the floor. Bring your questions, your skepticism, or just your attention. The Q&A is live and unfiltered.
Format: 25-min conversation + 15-min live Q&A
Who this is for: B2B SaaS and AI founders, CEOs, operators, and investors who understand that performance and inner stability are not the same thing.
Your Host
Yannick Kpodar is a 2x VP/CMO turned General Partner at Aventra Capital and founder of Full Stack CEO™. Over the last 15+ years, he has helped B2B SaaS teams raise $396M+, reach unicorn valuation, and scale from single-digit ARR to $45M+ across the US and Europe. He has also lived the other side of hypergrowth — burnout, toxic pressure, divorce, firing, and an identity collapse that forced him to rebuild from the inside out. That experience now shapes how he works with founders on GTM, capital, leadership, and the inner operating system required to hold it all.
About Full Stack CEO™
Full Stack CEO™ is the operating system for B2B SaaS and AI founders from first revenue to $25M ARR — GTM, metrics, capital, leadership, and nervous system built for the age of AI. The work is rooted in one belief: the founders who last are the ones who learn to read the whole system, including themselves.
Inside the ecosystem, founders get direct access to serious peers, weekly working sessions with Yannick, and live conversations with operators, startup mentors, exited founders, and VCs who help them make better decisions under pressure.