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I think the answers is Yes, absolutely. But I think I have a different idea about what the mentorship should involve then you do. I think you can learn more from studying his thought process and his experiences with sr. management, customers and partners then you will from simply following his technical suggestions.

I also think you should bring a couple things to the table that you want to teach him. It could be some new fancy tech, or some online community or something that will help expand his perspective and better understand where you are coming from.

At the end of the day, it is really relationship problems that hold us back - not technology problems. And your ability to form successful mentor/mentee relationships will help you much more in the future than learning new tech of the week. (It will also give you perspective when your future mentee posts to hacker news v.next about her stodgy old mentor that doesn't know anything ;)