I have been offered several Advisory (with equity) roles with startups I have worked with often with few interactions.

Each time I request the founders to give me time to prove with execution that I am worth having as an advisor.

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I see this often with diverse founders who want as much help as they can get and have been conditioned into this give first mentality where they often give to much away to gain access to this space which is especially difficult to nav

And in the early stages team is CRITICAL.

As an advisor with eqty I believe you should be vested in that entity and If I am not vested in that bus model, nor believe I have some unique val prop to provide them I don’t want to put myself in a position to be an advisor but I will happily be a thought partner and advocate

I would find there are nuances in what we may consider “help” to a founder.

And far to often I think founders can be taken advantage of by people who have no real skin in the game but want to capture all the glory for the work the founders and team do.

I think this goes to the larger point in these roles you have a duty to help steer the company in the right direction and put time towards execution

Nonetheless

It’s something I want to research further and do some writing on "the detriment of the well intentioned investor."