u/s4074433 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
There's got to be other motivations to do things in life other than money right? Maybe some of them have enough already and want to give something back to the community, or maybe even try and make some changes that will fix the broken IT industry?
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
From my experience. There are a bunch of people who want to give back and mentoring yes.
The problem is they don't want to quit their jobs and run your program reliably for 6 months. They want to do casual mentorship.
If I'm making $1M a year as a principal eng at Meta, I need you do do a ton of coordinating around my life for me to do mentorship even if I WANT TO. You have to setup effective mentees for the person. It's not about the money but the opportunity cost.
A person like this wants to maximize their impact as a mentor and not waste time.
Who is going to manage all of this? It's completely different process and skillset to manage this than running a bootcamp.