[_m8fo]

I'm curious to how this is priced. For less than $200 you could buy a coffee for yourself and someone else and meet with them in person every day.

I do see how a small start-up could benefit from this, though. However, unlike most things this probably would become worse as more people use it as there's a fixed amount of good mentors and a fixed amount of time with them. Unlimited time with them means waiting, which would eventually make the product itself unusable.

I don't see a solution to this problem. Education has the same problem, yet to be solved.

[qhoang09]

What we price is:

1) The heavy process of recruiting the mentors (we talk to each single one of them to gather some stories)

2) The engineers that are working on the matching algorithme so mentors and mentees enjoy the calls

3) The manual task of scheduling and rescheduling the calls with mentors and mentees (and that's a cumbersome)

4) The engineers/designers that are working on the real product that is helping the mentor and mentee to build a long, lasting relationship that will be more efficient than just networking and having coffee.

About your second point, I agree that is the main challenge. This is how we'll tackle this:

1) For each new mentor, we assess their experience by gathering stories (examples of stories here stories.platohq.com)

2) So each mentor has some specific domain of expertise / things they like to talk about

3) You're not generally good or bad, but you can help on specific things by giving advice, or at least just sharing your experience on how you approached things (and that helps)

I hope that makes sense.

[Grustaf]

> you could buy a coffee for yourself and someone else and meet with them in person every day

The idea of this service seems to be to very easily connect you with high calibre people that are willing to spend time helping you. If you have access to such people on a daily basis already then you probably don't need this service.

[arikr]

> I'm curious to how this is priced. For less than $200 you could buy a coffee for yourself and someone else and meet with them in person every day.

Seems worth it as a perk for a company to offer to their employees - would be much more work for them to have to reach out and find mentors for their employees manually.

For an individual, probably doesn't make sense.

For a company as an employee perk, seems to make a lot of sense.

[qhoang09]

Agreed! We have a bunch of CTOs/cofounders and small startups, but we have also Lyft, TuneIn, Betterment, Scality, Telmate as customers.

Some individual paying from their own pocket to invest in their career, but it's more rare ;)