phyl terry

Summary

I am a founder, investor, coach, and author who has worked in the Internet world since the early 1990s. I have founded a number of companies and pro-bono programs. Today, I run a private community of senior leaders in Product and General Management. And, I operate my own small private value investing fund, influenced by the philosophy of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. I also coach CEOs and senior executives. And I have written two books, and am working on my third. I was recently on Lenny's Podcast, and have been a guest on a number of others. Marty Cagan also profiled me in his latest book, Transformed. For my most recent book, Never Search Alone, I'm donating 100% of the sales to building a global volunteer community that has helped more than 30,000 job seekers in this tech downturn (you can find the suite of free services at Phyl.org). --- More details --- I'm the founder and CEO of Collaborative Gain, a community of senior-level Product (and GM) leaders who are passionate about helping one another build great products, companies, and careers. CG provides three levels of coaching: Peer Coaching (Councils for leaders at all levels); Concierge Coaching (1:1 Coaching for VP/SVP); Executive Coaching (1:1 Coaching for Chief Product Officers and CEOs). I'm also the author of "Never Search Alone: The Job Seeker's Playbook", which helps everyone from CEOs, Chief Product Officers, VPs, ICs and college students conduct a collaborative search, discover their Candidate-Market Fit, and find jobs at the intersection between their hopes and dreams and market realities. I've built a volunteer-led pro-bono community around the book that has launched close to 3,000 Job Search Councils. I started my career in the early Internet – on the startup team of the first company Amazon bought and was the longtime CEO of Creative Good, the pioneering customer experience firm that worked with Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others. I sit on for-profit and nonprofit boards, and have launched several global pro-bono programs including Slow Art Day, Reading Odyssey, and the World of Business Reading Group, which introduces high school and college students to business, finance, leadership and ethics. A graduate of the Harvard Business School, my previous writing includes the book "Customers Included" (co-authored), contributing author of "The Warren Buffett Shareholder", and the Harvard Business Review article, “Who Can Help the CEO?” I live in Brooklyn, identify as non-binary, and welcome any & all pronouns.