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A Lesson in Successful Transitions

LOS ANGELES—Lee & Associates founder sits down with CEO Jeff Rinkov and EVP Joe Vargas in an EXCLUSIVE video interview to reflect on the firm's tremendous growth and his original vision for his namesake company.

By Kelsi Maree Borland | Updated on October 19, 2016

LOS ANGELES—The brokerage industry doesn’t see Bill Lee, the founder and principal of Lee & Associates, too often. The veteran broker is now retired and happily runs a beachside bed and breakfast in the Central Coast. When the brokers from his namesake firm convene for the annual Lee & Associates Broker Summit, however, Lee can’t stay away. The conference, held earlier this month at the Wynn Encore in Las Vegas, was a meeting of like minds, and a time for Lee to see the robust national platform that his firm has become.

GlobeSt.com sat down with Lee and Lee & Associates CEO Jeff Rinkov and EVP Joe Vargas for an exclusive interview to discuss the firm’s evolution and Lee’s original vision for the company, which remain compatible even today. “After we set the [second office] up as a separately incorporated entity, and I got to see how the two offices blended together and supported each other, I knew that we had something that was going to be a national company someday,” says Lee in the interview about the founding of the firm in 1979.

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