But Getting a Friend Isn’t
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Sometimes people ask me if I have any mentors and I always say the same thing.
“No, but I have a lot of smart friends”
I’m not sure when I developed this mindset. I think it was recently when I was working on a startup, people told me I needed to get a few mentors to help guide me. There was something about the terminology I didn…