Sean Parker contacted Zuckerberg after seeing TheFacebook on a computer screen at Stanford. Shortly after the two met, Parker became the president of the five-month-old company.
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Sean Parker taught Zuckerberg the importance of maintaining control of his company. After making a mistake at his own startup, Plaxo, by allowing VCs to have too much control, Parker made sure Zuckerberg had two board seats so he'd never lose his shares. Parker also played an important role in early
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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