It’s amazing how many people will orbit around startups as advisors or something like that in an attempt to give off the scent of startup person in order to accrue status The ultimate irony is that precisely 0 startups make it where the founder(s) doesn’t look extremely silly and low status during the founding era
Bezos left a 7 figure high status job to manually pack books into boxes on the floor. Do you realize how dumb this must have looked to his former colleagues? Gates and Allen were writing software out of a New Mexico strip mall. Etc etc etc And of course “advisor” is v nebulous; many can be very helpful
Oh yeah David Perell wrote about this too, the dangers of chasing prestige I think practically speaking the “next big thing” has to by definition be small and weird to start, or else it becomes tautological https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1687414780494008320?s=46
Example of someone who accrued actual status as a advisor? Silicon Valley antibodies are pretty good at sniffing out value creation most of the time.
Are you saying you're looking for Advisors for AirGraph? ;)
It’s also out of hope of catching a wave of asymmetrical returns
In France, we have a whole industry of civil servants with lifetime job security dedicated to “supporting startups and innovation” Paid for with our taxes of course. Talk about alignment! So technically, every French person has a stake in every government funded startup, we just don’t get carry lol