Colin Kaepernick counts Ben Horowitz, Evan Williams, and Alexis Ohanian as mentors

Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick told Brainstorm AI some of the mentors he's leaned on.

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00:00I think there have been a few different people that have really helped me get to where I'm at today.

00:04One has been in the VC community, Ben Horowitz has been a great person to lean on.

00:10Sure.

00:10He's given me phenomenal insight.

00:12Ev Williams has been another one who has really helped me in my thinking.

00:17Having the opportunity to sit on the board of Medium has been incredibly insightful and very helpful for my own development.

00:25And the other one, just thinking about where I'm at today, is Alexis, Christina, the 776 team, who is our lead investors.

00:33They're incredibly brilliant and also great people.

00:38So to be able to have them to lean on, ask for guidance, and also just pick their brains on things that we're working on.

00:44How we can scale things more effectively, how we can reach creators more effectively.

00:49Especially when you have someone like Alexis who's built Reddit.

00:53You have a great person to be able to lean on in that regard.