10X CEO® — The AI Framework for Exceptional Leaders

The Only CEO Program Built for the AI Era.

The Compounding CEO.

AI has fundamentally changed what's possible. Tasks that used to require weeks, a full team, a significant budget — competitive analysis, market research, customer intelligence — are now nearly instantaneous. Almost free, and available at unlimited scale.

This isn't incremental improvement. It's a structural shift in the cost and speed of high-quality strategic work.

AI — with the right support harness — makes a different type of leadership possible. This AI-empowered leader operates at a different level. Not busier — clearer. Not more involved — more decisive. That CEO isn't a different person. It's the same person, with the right infrastructure to support them.

Good isn't enough.
Great compounds.

The best coaches create accountability. The best peer groups create belonging. What's been missing — until now — is a system that creates leverage: one that combines peer intelligence, an experienced CEO coach with both operational experience and the continual pattern recognition with elite CEOs, and a CEO Knowledge Lake that knows your business before the conversation even starts.

If you're already in a program you value, you know what good looks like. 10X CEO creates the bridge from good to great — and great compounds.

Three Forces.
One Compounding System.

You can navigate the AI era alone — or you can collapse the time it takes to master it. 10X CEO integrates three capabilities that compound on each other, in one place.

01
CEO Knowledge Lake
Two decades of world-class CEO experience, coaching history, and strategic intelligence — synthesized by AI. This Knowledge Lake continually updates with your own evolving perspectives, coaching experience, peer interactions, and the combined intelligence of the 10X network. This knowledge is applied to your most impactful CEO priorities and decisions.
02
CEO Coach
A coach who has operated at the CEO level — working across a wide network of scale-stage companies. They help you bridge the gap between competing priorities, ground AI-generated intelligence in your specific context, and identify the move that changes your trajectory.
03
CEO Peer Cohort
A highly curated room of 6–7 scale-appropriate, non-competing CEOs who meet in person for 1½ days each quarter. Vetted for stage, caliber, and AI leadership. They form deep, trusting relationships based on mutual respect and the compounding value they receive from navigating each other's most important decisions. The average tenure of a 10X CEO member is four years.
Qualifications

The most important question we ask about
every CEO

For every CEO we consider, we ask one question: would our existing members pay to have this person as their advisor? That standard is why our network compounds — and why the people in the room are worth being in the room with.

  • 01 Nominated only. Must be nominated by a top-tier venture firm or a current member of 10X CEO.
  • 02 AI-forward by default. Must be actively using AI and views their role as their company's "skill architect."
  • 03 Hungry and generous. Must be both hungry for learning and willing to contribute to the collective intelligence of the 10X CEO network.
  • 04 Raises the room. Every CEO is chosen based on whether they will improve the collective intelligence and value of their cohort.

10X CEO® Companies

Our Business Laboratory

Databricks
Klaviyo
Weights & Biases
Cribl
Auth0 / Okta
Pendo
Workato
Atlan
Unstructured

When you're building a company at scale, everything feels urgent. The hardest leadership skill isn't working harder — it's knowing the few vital things that have the greatest impact and having the discipline to let everything else wait.

10X CEO gave me a system for that. A real operating discipline, reinforced by peers who are making the same bets at the same scale. 10X CEO has been my most effective "CEO gym practice" since 2018.

Todd Olson
CEO, Pendo

At Cribl's scale, the difference between a good strategic decision and a great one is measured in millions. That's not hyperbole — it's the reality of operating at this stage.

The 10X CEO sessions are where I bring my most consequential questions and leave with a clearer answer than I came in with. Not because the room has all the answers — because the room has people who have been in my exact position and can see around corners I haven't turned yet. That intelligence compounds. Every quarter I'm in the room, I get better at my job.

Clint Sharp
CEO, Cribl

The most dangerous thing a CEO can do is become too comfortable with their own perspective. At Workato, I need to be right about the market, right about the team, and right about our positioning — simultaneously, and in real time.

10X CEO gives me the infrastructure to stress-test those beliefs before the market does. My coach has pattern recognition I can't develop alone. My peers have operating context I can't get from my own board. The result isn't just better decisions — it's a faster, more confident operating rhythm across the entire company.

Vijay Tella
CEO, Workato