Reed worked for Audrey MacLean in 1990 when she was CEO at Adaptive Corp. From her he learned the value of focus. he learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.
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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