10 Great Mentors of Great Entrepreneurs
Kevin Systrom
Mentor: Adam D’Angelo
How they met: During a frat party at Stanford
When the app failed just within few hours of going live, Instagram CEO-Kevin Systrom turned up to Adam D’Angelo who was also an early investor in the same company. D’Angelo spent almost half an hour on the phone with Systrom and gave him all courage and confidence to run the company.
In a blog post, Systrom added "Adam's thoughtful approach to new technologies and scaling problems will be an asset to the Instagram team."
