> Advice without context from anyone...would be useless, unless you are working/thinking about the problem that they are giving solutions for. Totally agree. I

> Advice without context from anyone...would be useless, unless you are working/thinking about the problem that they are giving solutions for. Totally agree. In my opinion, this can be a real reason to give advisors equity: to incentivize them to keep the context of your company in their head. In many cases, you can get equally qualified (non-contextual) advice, for free, from tons of other folks (around SV, at least). But few will have the extended context that advisors who have been around for a while will.