YEC · since 2012
The higher you climb, the fewer people you can ask.
YEC is a founder peer council: a table of founders at your stage who bring what they’ve learned and offer honest perspectives you won’t always get from your own team. Under $1M or well past it, there is a seat for your stage.
Where you are on the climb
YEC Fellows
For members who have outgrown Core. By invitation.
YEC Core
For founders at $1M+ in revenue.
$3,500 a year, or $400 a month
See YEC Core
YEC Next
For founders under $1M in revenue. A coached twelve-month program.
$5,000 a year, or $550 a month
See YEC Next
Established 2012Publishing under your name, including Inc.
Why a council
You have options. Here is how YEC differs.
The best-known founder groups
One asks for $1M+ in revenue, or $2M+ raised with 10+ employees. The other asks for $13M to $16M+ in revenue. YEC has a seat on each side of $1M: YEC Next under $1M, YEC Core at $1M+.
A coach or a course
A coach works with you one to one. A peer council puts you with founders who have already made the call you are weighing.
Going it alone
Your team helps you run your business. A council connects you with fellow founders who understand what it takes to operate at your altitude.
The real problem
Your title climbed faster than your support did.
From the outside, the climb shows: the title, the team, the results. On the inside it gets quieter. Fewer people can see the whole of it, and fewer still will say what they see. That gap between outside and inside is what a council closes.
What others see
Title. Recognition. Results.
What you feel
Second-guessing. Pressure. Loneliness.
At the table
What a seat includes.
Peers, not prospects
The people you would never get a meeting with are at the table, as peers, not prospects.
Sessions and the directory
Operator-led sessions, event recordings and a member directory to find the founder who has done it.
Publishing under your name
Members answer real questions on expert panels, and the answer runs under their own name, through YEC and its partners, including Inc.
Coaching, if you are under $1M
YEC Next adds a monthly check-in with Jessica or Drew, a cohort roundtable and a twelve-month curriculum.
You join people, not brands
Meet Jessica and Drew.
They met here as members, years before they ran it, and became each other’s counsel. Now they are building that for every founder who has been carrying it alone.
Meet the people behind it →The invitation
Apply, and a person reads it. We reach out either way. The bar exists because the people at the table built it.