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How to decline someone who made your success possible

My mentor who helped me build my career just asked me to join his new startup but I know it is a bad idea and I do not know how to tell him no.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You owe your mentor a lot, and now you can't bring yourself to turn him down even though you should.

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