Stuart spent years running his SaaS business without a mentor, then hired consultants outside his industry whose advice backfired. He'd tell his younger self to find a mentor in SaaS early, someone who actually knows the space.
Stuart, what's one piece of advice you wish you had known and if you can go back, you would tell your younger self today, like everything you've learned?
Yeah. Yeah, man. I think it would be, I think it would just be get a mentor. It sounds so simple and so obvious, but I went so many years, Akeel, with like, with no mentor, you know? And so I was just kind of like this guy that was, you know, driving blind, you know, thankfully I was taking a lot of action and I was very ambitious and in go mode, but I didn't have a mentor guiding me in the right direction. And then the other thing too, once I sort of tried to, to find a mentor, I, I, I would go and get consulting and coaching from people that weren't in my space. So they weren't in SaaS. Hmm. And so they would give me probably great advice for their niche, but terrible advice for mine. And so I would just say, like, if, if I can go back, I would just say, Stuart, go get a mentor as soon as possible and make sure it's a mentor in your space.
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