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Your mentors (broadly defined) will happily tell you that your idea rounds to valueless and that all of the value created happens over years of patient execution, much like the years of execution that they spent working on their most recent adventure, and that entrepreneurs who are likely to be successful don’t sit around idle in a room lounging on stacks of money, chit chatting with lawyers, and waiting to stab a passing startup in the back.

Ideas are pretty worthless. Execution is everything. It takes years of follow through to realize the value of good ideas.

While it's certainly possible, most people have their own ideas and problems they are already working on. Relationships and execution end up counting way more than ideas.

On balance, if you have a great idea, you'll be better off growing it with good mentorship compared to the small risk that it gets stolen by a mentor.