Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975, and Steve Ballmer joined the company in 1980. Ballmer served as CEO of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014, and during that time, he learned from and worked closely with Gates, who remained involved in the company as chairman and chief software archit
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In a 2019 interview, Ballmer said that he learned a lot from Gates about how to think about business strategy and how to lead a company.
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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