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

Are you saying you're looking for Advisors for AirGraph? ;)

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fwiw, I have worked with some startups who had helpful ‘Advisors’ but it was never their full time job, and they always had a very specific skillset/network/experience that the founder leaned on.

Only two helpful buckets: friends and angels