[vineet]

The challenges of starting a company are different form the challenges of running/growing a $25 million dollar company. That being said, you will still learn a lot from shadowing him.

I think you have a few options: a. Shadow him. This in itself will be fairly useful.

b. Shadow him plus. If you want to do this, I feel like offering to potentially sending him an end of month report later-on on a particular aspect he wants might not be a bad idea. To do this well, you might want to spend 25%-50% of your time in meetings where he is not there depending on the report topic.

c. Offer to help on a top strategic initiative of his - This is personally what I would do. You will have an awesome project under your belt and will learn from the experience.

d. Work for him - If he is paying you he will likely want you in a specific role. I feel like this might be the least helpful to you in the long term.