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by qhoang09 3188 days ago
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.