Thanks Murthy, I am ashamed to admit I am not a great expert on this (I should be better really). Being bootstrapped you don’t automatically get give a ‘ready made’ circle of people pushing advisors towards you, nor so you have a board structure or other ways to incentivise their support.
That said, over the years we have had 2 or 3 people we regularly look to for strategic advice, particularly when we’re tackling a big decision.
The opposite of imposter syndrome is possibly - being over-confident that you start to believe everything you do must be correct!
I also really enjoy meeting and getting to know other founders (like here of of course) as there’s nothing like shared experience to help you move things along.
So I would throw that back out to founders and ask how they have managed along the way - are paid advisors the way to go, or do you always get them through the financial channels?