Steve met Ben during an interview at Convergent Technologies. Ben was the VP of Sales and Marketing. Three and a half years later Convergent became a public company and Steve was the Vice President of Marketing working for Ben.
Relationship
Ben ended up as Steve's mentor at Convergent, his peer at Ardent and his partner and co-founder at Epiphany. Steve in his book "The Four Steps to the Epiphany" quotes Ben as his Mentor and as someone who taught me how to think.
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€
Mentor