In 2006 Anderson had his pitch deck ready to present to potential limited partners but lacked one big thing: deal flow. One of the first people he called was Ron Conway, a legendary angel investor who saw most ideas that came along. He backed Google and PayPal and had been a mentor from Anderson's K
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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