Product Execution Coaching

• Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the amount of exciting ideas you have, but not sure how to prioritize? Or maybe you've been so deeply focused on one difficult problem that it's hard to see how to make incremental progress day to day?
• I'm a product execution coach. Tell me what you are working on and how you/your team work — I will help you focus, identify bottlenecks, clarify your priorities, set up roadmaps and milestones. The goal is to enable your team to actualize your vision and get to effective shipping.
• A few other ways to understand what I do are:
  • A life coach, but for your startup or research project.
  • A fractional PM for your team, and sometimes chief of staff.
  • A private investigator to assess how effective the current workflow and culture are.
  • A peer rubber duck to talk through the gap between your vision and the day to day reality.
• I believe teams already have the answers within themselves. My job is not to come in and tell you what to do — it's to ask the right questions until you can see it clearly yourself. The clarity is already there; sometimes you just need someone to talk it through with.
• This is currently for in-house teams and members at Mox in the AI safety community. Feel free to get in touch at coaching@wanyidaili.com.
• My goal is to help founders, researchers, and builders execute their best work — so that we all collectively walk into the future of safe AI together. Come talk to me at Mox!

Office Hours at Mox

• Who: Any team or member at or affiliated with Mox, San Francisco.
• Schedule: Friday, April 24th, 1–3pm
• If you'd like to find a different time to meet separately, please email me.
• Walk-ins are welcome during office hours. During the initial office hour sessions, we will come up with a scope of work i.e. how I can best help your team. If mutual interest present and capacity permitted, we can set up more dedicated time for on-going collaborations.

My Background

• I've been on the inside at companies ranging from Meta to early-stage blockchain startups: Consensys, Chainlink, Lightspark, and others. I've also worked with many startups of all team sizes (1 - 50) across different stages — from ideation and prototyping through multiple rounds of funding.
• I've done advisory and fractional work where I went in, talked to the team, and set up an execution roadmap — and months later the team was still following it. That's the outcome I care about.
• The most common thing people say after working with me is that no matter how complex the situation was going in, they leave knowing exactly what their next steps are. That's what I'm optimizing for.
• I have a PhD in operations research at Stanford University where I studied mechanism design and incentive alignment. I love reading papers. Come explain your very technical ideas to me!

Let's Also Talk About

• Besides helping with execution, I am here to learn from you. I'm particularly interested in AI safety questions around incentive alignment, mechanism design, privacy, and the deconcentration of economic and political power.
• I care deeply about cognitive surrendering — how do we use AI mindfully without reducing our own intelligence? What AI products would help people think better rather than think less? If you have thoughts on any of this, I'd love to compare notes.