Writing for Founders
A short, opinionated course on writing clearly when the stakes are high.
About the course
Most founders write a lot of words and very few of them get read. This is a fixable problem, and fixing it is among the highest-leverage things you can do.
Across twelve lessons, you'll work through the writing that founders actually have to do — investor updates, customer outreach, hiring posts, internal memos — and rebuild your defaults.
By the end you won't write like a writer. You'll write like a person who has something to say and respects the reader's time.
What you’ll come away with
- 01Write a clearer investor update in 20 minutes than most founders write in two hours
- 02Recognize the four kinds of throat-clearing you do without realizing it
- 03Build a small kit of templates for the writing you do every week
- 04Edit your own work to half its length without losing meaning
Syllabus · 3 chapters · 12 lessons
- 01▶Why founder writing is different10 min
- 02✦The one-paragraph version test14 min
- 03✎Your bad defaults (an honest inventory)18 min
About the instructor
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Maya Patel
@maya · Brooklyn
Writer and course creator. Author of Writing for Founders. Sometimes posts about birds.
22 posts · 198 comments · since Jan 2026
What students say
I sent my investor update to Maya before this course; she rewrote it in fifteen minutes. The next month, three investors replied who'd never replied before.
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Diego Garcia
Founder, two-time
I've taken a lot of writing courses. This one is the first that took my actual work seriously instead of asking me to write fiction about apples.
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Emi Mori
Translator and writer
The "bad defaults inventory" alone was worth the price. I've been carrying around four of them for a decade.
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Robin Tao
Designer, indie type foundry
Cohort enrollment
$149
one time · lifetime access
Next cohort starts
June 3, 2026
0 enrolled · 50 seats left
Frequently asked
It's a writing course. Marketing is downstream of being able to make a real claim in real words.
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