Platformer - Sheryl Sandberg calls it quits
Open in browser Sandberg’s announcement came on the first day of June, though it might just as easily have come on any other day this year. Or in the past seven years, really. Sandberg held many roles at Facebook over the years, and helped guide it through several tumultuous periods. In conversations with people who worked closely with her, though, there were really only two distinct eras in Sandberg’s time at Facebook. They fit neatly, into two seven-year periods. Sandberg established and grew the policy, communications, and teams, and along the way became one of the most prominent business leaders in America. For half a decade, fast-growing startups would talk openly about “finding a Sheryl” to help them grow and mature. Sandberg was the blueprint. The second era, from 2016 on, looked very different. By the end of that year, Facebook would find itself suddenly and permanently on the defensive. Each month seemed to bring a fresh scandal: revelations about data privacy problems; the spread of hate speech and links to genocide; abuse by state-sponsored hackers and trolls; spiraling investigations by the Federal Trade Commission, state attorneys general, and countless other regulators around the world. In between the first and second eras, of course, Sandberg experienced two cataclysms. The first was the abrupt death of her much-loved husband, Dave Goldberg, in May 2015. The second was the election of Donald Trump in November of the following year. By the end Sandberg occupied a role that seemed to me quite small, for a leader of her stature: focused on overseeing the company’s efforts to promote small businesses, encouraging them to use the company’s ad tools. It felt more like a part-time consulting project than work befitting the COO. ... Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Platformer to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. A subscription gets you:
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