[danpalmer]

Glad you’re thinking about all of this. I personally can’t imagine getting a useful response in 3 minutes to a one sentence question. I suspect it’s either going to be generic advice not tailored to me, or an answer that I could have just looked up.

That said, connecting these sorts of mentors for longer form feedback/input, or perhaps customised talks for companies, that could be really impactful and you’ll have a good platform on which to build those.

[runelohrhauge]

The duration of the responses will be increased to 9 minutes on the next release. We have received feedback from some of the mentors on this and have observed some mentors sending more than one response to 1 question. That said, the experience is meant convert into as a dialogue, which it often does.

Customized talks for cohorts os users is an excellent idea. What type of talks would you like to see, just out of curiosity? Pre-recorded, customized sessions, and live videos with groups that can send in questions have been discussed.

[danpalmer]

We've had a few guest speakers in to do talks at my workplace (~50 people) – it's usually something fairly informal and off-the-record/private, so they have been extremely high value as you get the sort of detail that doesn't tend to make it into generic talks on YouTube. Often these have taken the format of a "fireside chat" with one of our senior people, plus audience questions, for a total time of about an hour. Now that Zoom/et al are so commonplace I could see us doing this over video conferencing as well even though they've historically been in person.

To my knowledge we've never paid for these sessions – they're mostly "friends of the company", investors, CEOs from other companies in our investors' portfolios, etc, but assuming the price wasn't extortionate or the topic area was an important one, I could see us paying for this sort of thing. Again, to my knowledge, the speakers haven't prepped for these explicitly in the past so the time commitment would have likely been small, apart from travel.

[runelohrhauge]

The fireside chat concept could work well. Especially if the folks in the audience don't have access to these opportunities otherwise and can sigh up individually. Thanks for sharing these ideas Dan!