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Mentorship isn’t a cost—it’s an investment in your future self. 💡
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Just talk to us about mentorship and why it's so important to you. Here's a crazy story around this. So we started our first company in the Bay Area, multiple times on Sand Hill Road, just rejected for raising money. I didn't know anything about this process. And I called my dad and I said to him, I was like, Man, I'm really having a tough day. He goes, dude, there's two ways to change your life. You either change the people in your life, or you change your environment. And I said, Cool, I just went to this event, and I was sitting in the back. I was not even wanting to be there, and this lady was on stage, and she started talking. Every time I kind of had a question, I was going to raise my proverbial hand, she answered the question. It felt like she was reading my mind. My dad's like, well, then she would be a really great coach for you. I'm like, Dad, I don't have any money. And he's like, Well, you should reach out to her. I wrote her an email saying I was in this conference. You did an amazing job. I don't know whether you do this, but I would like to offer $10,000 to you as a symbol of my seriousness. In response to that, I'm not expecting you to meet with me, take calls with me, or anything like that from time to time. If I could write you an email and you'd prioritize your responses, I would appreciate she responds back in like two minutes. Is this a joke? And I'm like, No, I don't know how else to ask you for this, right? And so she said, write it up. And I was like, I don't know how to write this contract up. So I printed off the email, I signed it, and I just sent her a scanned copy back, and she goes, haha, that's funny. Wire me the money. So I wired her the money. This was, like, you know, an early during the boom, and she became my first coach. That was the beginning of the beginning.
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