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Mentee and mentor at the same time

August 13, 2026

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The most useful thing I did this year was rejoin the HubSpot mentorship program as both a mentee and a mentor.

As a mentor I get to hand back some of what ten years taught me.

As a mentee I was matched with Mustafa from Germany, who sat me down and taught me Cursor. I had never used it. He walked me through building my own apps.

So now I can make things I could not make before. That feeling is what unbound actually means to me, and it came from a person, not a product release.

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