Son pursued his interests in business by securing a meeting with Japan McDonald's president Den Fujita. Taking his advice, Son began studying English and computer science.
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Fujita served on the board of Softbank, whose Korean-Japanese founder, Masayoshi Son, once idolized Fujita as a boy.
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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