After 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 company, according to Reader's Digest.
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Stewart Butterfield and Catarina Fake took a look at the site and decided to take a chance on it. After inviting the team to San Francisco, they helped Etsy raise a $615,000 round of financing.
The best advice she got, Lee said, came from Marissa Mayer when Lee considering taking a job at Google. Mayer said her own favorite choices had come when she followed the more difficult road. “’Are you learning, are you growing, are you challenging yourself?’†Lee recalled Mayer asking. “I always define my career in terms of that.â€
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