Jon McNeill has been in the C-suite for a long time. He worked as the president of global sales and marketing for Tesla under CEO Elon Musk before becoming the chief operating officer for Lyft. He now runs the company he co-founded, DVx Ventures, which helps entrepreneurs launch new businesses, and sits on different boards including General Motors and Lululemon.
But when it comes to career advice, he says the single most important factor in his rise to the top was finding people who championed him early on—even if he didn’t know it back then.
“The biggest impact on my experience in my career in leadership has been to have mentors. It is an unfair advantage. I didn’t realize this when it was happening at the time,” McNeill recently told Fortune.
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