2026 LA Tech Week: Accountability That Actually Works - A Playbook for First-Time Founders

Chris Sheng — Growth Advisor at Mucker Capital, CEO of LeadrPro, and a 3x founder who's worked with 300+ VC-backed startups — spent the past year running structured accountability groups across 40+ founders, recording weekly milestones and exactly why they were hit or missed. This session is the data-backed playbook from that experiment: why founders struggle to follow through, and the system that helps them do it. Chris covers: The real patterns behind why founders miss their goals Building in public that actually works: post what you'll execute this week, not just vanity metrics The binary milestone rule: every weekly goal has to be true or false, no gray area How to set the right goals through backward planning How to structure your own accountability loop so weekly goals actually get hit