Semel would play a defining role in Weiner’s career. When Semel left Warner and formed his own investment firm, Windsor Media, Weiner followed in 2000, at the height of the Internet bubble. Barely a year later, after the bubble had popped, a badly ailing Yahoo hired Semel as its CEO, and once agai
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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