Ask HN: Seeking an engineering mentor

Preferably free, but willing to pay $100/hour or more if this proves fruitful. My ambition is within a 20 year horizon to create a technological product that is novel, useful, persistent, and prevalent. Examples I feel meet these criteria include S3, Java, Autotune, Bittorent, Bitcoin, Blackrock's Aladdin, HTCondor, RSA, Facebook, Dropbox, Tinder, Valgrind, Wikipedia, Wordpress, Google Maps, Snapchat, Spring, Slack, nginx, deep fakes, Docker, Super Smash Bros, Youtube, QNX, and more. Please contact me at manrajt@gmail.com or leave contact information or advice in comments. Thank you.