Mentor
topic on 7 shows · 11 statements across 11 episodes
the Knowledge Project 
Lenny's Podcast 
My First Million 
the Neon Show 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 
Top Founders 
20VC
11 statements about Mentor, every show
MacInnis: Founders should ask mentors for relevant lived experience, never for advice
“Don't ask people for advice. Ask people for relevant experience. If you ask them for advice, they will always give it. But if you ask them for relevant experience, they rarely have any to offer. And if they don't have any to offer, then don't ask for their adv…”
Finkelstein: Emulating a single mentor fully forces you to adopt their flaws
“If you try to cargo cult everything about one particular person, you're going to adopt all their good stuff and all their bad stuff. Instead, it's much easier to figure out what are the couple things I want to get good at.”
Puri: Program-assigned mentors are the fakest way to find mentorship
“You're supposed to get assigned with a mentor, which is the most fake way you can get a mentor is it gets assigned to you.”
Sean Puri: Founders massively overrate mentors and underrate peer networks
“Basically I think most people massively overrate the idea of a mentor. Cause I think it sounds like the easy button. It's like, man, I wish that there was just some genius who knew everything and had done everything who could just tell me what to do and solve …”
Lemkin: Top potential mentors avoid mentoring while mediocre ones pursue it
“The best ones don't really want to be mentors anymore, and the mediocre ones want to be mentors, right?”
Sanghvi: Reject single mentors in favor of targeted expert advice
“I don't believe in mentors. I believe in asking people, For advice who are world class on the issues I'm facing.”
Founders should establish an advisory board of experienced ex-founders for guidance
“I really strongly endorse that any founder starting a company should probably structure a team of more experienced people who you trust and create a mentor you know, board that can actually guide you. I think that was singularly most important because they've …”
Simo: Women Need Career Sponsors Who Open Doors, Not Just Mentors
“I don't think mentors are That's critical. I think sponsors are, and there's a very big difference there. I mean, mentors are the kind of people who sit down with you, have coffee, give you some really, really great advice, and kind of walk away. Sponsors are …”
Puri: Seeking a Mentor Before Launching Is Just Advanced Procrastination
“When people think they need a mentor to go do their project or to like start their startup, they're looking for a mentor first. It's just an advanced form of procrastination.”
Tringas: All Earnest Capital Mentors Must Invest as LPs in the Fund
“All of our mentors also have to be LPs in the fund, so they are actually, like, everybody is invested, literally, in the success of the founders on this mission”