That said, connecting these sorts of mentors for longer form feedback/input, or perhaps customised talks for companies, that could be really impactful and you’ll have a good platform on which to build those.
Customized talks for cohorts os users is an excellent idea. What type of talks would you like to see, just out of curiosity? Pre-recorded, customized sessions, and live videos with groups that can send in questions have been discussed.
To my knowledge we've never paid for these sessions – they're mostly "friends of the company", investors, CEOs from other companies in our investors' portfolios, etc, but assuming the price wasn't extortionate or the topic area was an important one, I could see us paying for this sort of thing. Again, to my knowledge, the speakers haven't prepped for these explicitly in the past so the time commitment would have likely been small, apart from travel.