10 Great Mentors of Great Entrepreneurs
Rob Kalin
Mentor: Stewart Butterfield and Catarina Fake, co-founders of Flickr
Kalin formed his initial team with Jared Tarbell and Chris Maguire. Kalin decided to send a note to Flickr founders Stewart Butterfield and Catarina Fake, telling them to check out his newly formed company “Etsy”, according to Reader’s Digest.
The founders of Flickr took a look at their website and decided to take a chance on it, they invited this young team to San Francisco and apparently helped them to raise $615,000 round of funding.
