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Something I've observed is that this level of coaching is only available through particular, isolated channels.

Those channels are top accelerators like YC and top VCs. It's not worth their time to waste it on people they don't have a stake in, but it seriously changes the trajectory of founders who are exposed to it (and their employees - not going to doxx myself but it's not possible to understate what you get through osmosis at an early stage startup on the path to being a unicorn).

Basically you need to take that risk to be a founder of a killer idea that redefines or creates entire new markets (or has the potential to) and then exercise a network to get in with the "in" crowd of advisors who have a vested interest in your success.

At the end of the day, those who can't do teach. But there's only so much you can learn from those who haven't done anything.



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