Sheryl Sandberg
description: American technology executive, activist, and authors
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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
by Sheryl Sandberg · 11 Mar 2013 · 241pp · 78,508 words
are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sandberg, Sheryl. Lean in : women, work, and the will to lead / Sheryl Sandberg. — First edition. pages cm eISBN: 978-0-385-34995-6 1. Women executives. 2. Leadership in women. 3. Sandberg, Sheryl. I. Title. HD6054.3.S265
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then recounted this story publicly, figuring that it might make it easier for others who have faced unwanted tears. The press reported the incident as “Sheryl Sandberg cried on Mark Zuckerberg’s shoulder,” which is not exactly what happened. What happened was that I expressed my feelings and Mark responded with compassion
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reinforces the stigma that successful women are unlikeable. A perfect and personal example occurred in May 2012, when a Forbes blogger posted an article entitled “Sheryl Sandberg Is the Valley’s ‘It’ Girl—Just Like Kim Polese Once Was.” He began his comparison by describing Kim, an early tech entrepreneur, as a
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at the right time [and was] young, pretty and a good speaker.” The blogger then argued, “I think Polese is a good cautionary tale for … Sheryl Sandberg.”7 Ouch. Kim and I had never met or spoken before this incident, but she defended both of us. In a published response, she described
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Claire Cain Miller, “The $1.6 Billion Woman, Staying on Message,” New York Times, February 4, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/business/sheryl-sandberg-of-facebook-staying-on-message.html?pagewanted=all. 12. Dana R. Carney, Amy J. C. Cuddy, and Andy J. Yap, “Power Posing: Brief Nonverbal
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, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007–11–13/news/0711120690_1_female-leaders-women-and-leadership-social-psychologist. 6. Ken Auletta, “A Woman’s Place: Can Sheryl Sandberg Upend Silicon Valley’s Male-Dominated Culture?,” The New Yorker, July 11, 2012, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/07/11/110711fa_fact_auletta?current
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of the Present, and a Venture into the Future,” The Academy of Management Annals 2, no. 1 (2008): 231–74. 4. Caroline O’Connor, “How Sheryl Sandberg Helped Make One Entrepreneur’s Big Decision,” Harvard Business Review Blog Network, September 26, 2011, http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/09/how
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_sheryl_sandberg_helped_mak.html. 5. Approximately 80 percent of women without children are in the workforce. Of women with children, that number drops to 70.6
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), http://faculty-gsb.stanford.edu/aaker/pages/documents/LeaveThemSmiling_RuddAakerNorton12–16–11.pdf. 32. Mary C. Curtis, “There’s More to Sheryl Sandberg’s Secret,” Washington Post, April 4, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/theres-more-to
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-sheryl-sandbergs-secret/2012/04/04/gIQAGhZsvS_blog.html. 10. LET’S START TALKING ABOUT IT 1. Gloria Steinem, “In Defense of the ‘Chick-Flick,’ ” Alternet, July
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female scarcity leads to stereotyping, see Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Men and Women of the Corporation, 2nd ed. (New York: Basic Books, 1993). 7. The article “Sheryl Sandberg Is the Valley’s ‘It’ Girl—Just Like Kim Polese Once Was” can be found at the end of Eric Jackson, “Apology to
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to Kim Polese [Updated],” Forbes, May 23, 2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/05/23/apology-sheryl-sandberg-kim-polese/. 8. Kim Polese, “Stop Comparing Female Execs and Just Let Sheryl Sandberg Do Her Job,” Forbes, May 25, 2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2012/05/25/stop-comparing-female
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-execs-and-just-let-sheryl-sandberg-do-her-job/. 9. Jackson, “Apology to Sheryl Sandberg and to Kim Polese [Updated].” 10. For a review of research related to the queen bee syndrome, see Belle Derks et
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Relations 56, no. 5 (2003): 541–62. 27. Gloria: In Her Own Words, HBO documentary, directed by Peter Kunhardt (2011). A Note About the Author Sheryl Sandberg is chief operating officer at Facebook. Prior to working at Facebook, she was vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google and chief
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with her husband and their two children. Join the Lean In Community to continue the discussion at www.facebook.com/leaninorg or www.leanin.org. Sheryl Sandberg is donating all of her income from this book to establish Lean In, a nonprofit organization that encourages women to lean in to their ambitions
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. For more information, please visit www.aaknopf.com Lean In By Sheryl Sandberg Reading Group Guide ABOUT THIS READING GROUP GUIDE The questions, discussion topics, and reading list that follow are intended to enhance your reading group’s
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discussion of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. ABOUT THE BOOK Sheryl Sandberg—Facebook COO, ranked eighth on Fortune’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business—has become one of America’s most galvanizing
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new challenges, to find work that they love, and to remain passionately engaged with that work at the highest levels throughout their lives. Lean In—Sheryl Sandberg’s provocative, inspiring book about women and power—grew out of an electrifying TEDTalk she gave in 2010 in which she expressed her concern that
WEconomy: You Can Find Meaning, Make a Living, and Change the World
by Craig Kielburger, Holly Branson, Marc Kielburger, Sir Richard Branson and Sheryl Sandberg · 7 Mar 2018 · 335pp · 96,002 words
: LCC HD60 (ebook) | LCC HD60 .K4845 2018 (print) | DDC 658.4/08–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017051206 WECONOMY Foreword By Sheryl Sandberg It was my first day on the ground in India. The year was 1992 and I had graduated from college a few months before. I
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: Freedom & Responsibility” was created by the video-streaming company's former chief talent officer, Patty McCord, and was shared over 13 million times on Slideshare. Sheryl Sandberg called the presentation “the most important document ever to come out of the Valley.” McCord started a revolution for work-life balance. In it, the
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, will always be our editor-in-residence, a voice of reason, guidance, and an invaluable perspective. No project would be complete without your input. To Sheryl Sandberg and Sir Richard Branson, thank you for the inspiring words. We couldn't think of two better people to open and close this book; each
Facebook: The Inside Story
by Steven Levy · 25 Feb 2020 · 706pp · 202,591 words
company had hired to work in communications and policy, had believed that Trump had a chance to win. Facebook’s rock-star chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, a true-blue Clinton supporter, sent her daughter to bed that evening, promising to wake her so she could witness history as the first woman
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Facebook was forcing Zynga to use Credits, while the choice was voluntary for other developers. Pincus came in to talk to Zuckerberg, who brought in Sheryl Sandberg, saying that since she had worked for the Treasury Department and understood economics so well, she could clear things up for him. “They had this
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-command, ideally one with the gravitas of a CEO in his own right. Or hers. 9 Sheryl World INTIMACY.” That’s the first sentence of Sheryl Sandberg’s 1991 Harvard thesis. She gave the word its own paragraph to contrast how the warm feelings it evokes are horribly corrupted when violence disrupts
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she tapped a vast Rolodex of friends and contacts—whom she had methodically kept in touch with—Facebookers started using the term “FOSS.” Friend of Sheryl Sandberg. These included her friend Marne Levine, who would head Facebook’s DC office. Unlike Zuckerberg, whose closest contacts consisted of “the small group”—the subset
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usual. What’s more, as Facebook gathered more data, much of it in real time, that data pointed to how the company could exceed even Sheryl Sandberg’s revenue expectations. From the day she arrived at Facebook, she thought that the company would be limited to advertising that created demand for a
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less and less hyperbolic. Maybe the next hundred years of marketing history really did start with Facebook. 10 Growth! EARLY IN HER tenure at Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg had a series of conversations with Chamath Palihapitiya. They knew each other well. He was a family friend, part of a regular poker game with
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. Facebook had wisely decided not to continue along the lines of the misogynistic graffiti that David Choe had so lucratively produced. In the age of Sheryl Sandberg, the company was looking to adorn its walls with something more sophisticated but still reflective of its culture—maybe even defining it. In Austin, Barry
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was seeking to float its value in the stock market. “Would I advise a company to go public in the middle of that shift?” says Sheryl Sandberg now. “No! It would’ve been way better if we had gone public two years before or two years after.” But Facebook did not really
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, where the big VC firms made their bets. He had worked on the Google IPO and recently on LinkedIn’s. And he was friendly with Sheryl Sandberg. (As usual, other investment banks and advisers joined in, including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan.) Zuckerberg had firm ideas about the way Facebook’s stock structure
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Karl Rove as deputy chief of staff for policy. In 2011, he was an energy lobbyist when Sheryl Sandberg tapped him to be a VP of policy for Facebook. He was the ultimate Friend of Sheryl Sandberg—he had dated her at Harvard and had maintained ties to her despite their differing political affiliations
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the truth behind what was posted. “Fake news, maybe it’s always existed, but no one I know was thinking about it in 2015, right?” Sheryl Sandberg says to me in a 2019 interview. “I mean, it really became a thing in the last few years.” But people were thinking about it
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inside Facebook. “It was so unthinkable to me that I had ruled it out.” * * * • • • IN THE BLUEPRINT of the company organization that Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg drew up when she joined the company, policy issues, security, and communication were all in the domain of Sheryl World. While he would weigh in
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that everything would blow over and he would eventually be back in Facebook’s good graces. Throughout the process, the matter never seemed to reach Sheryl Sandberg or Mark Zuckerberg. * * * • • • AS THE ELECTION season heated up in 2016, Cambridge Analytica was actively working for GOP candidates. After Ted Cruz dropped out, the
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plan. “I’m not sure it would have worked if we had been like, We’re on it, we’ll get back to you,” says Sheryl Sandberg in reconstructing those awful days where Facebook was, in a PR sense, burning, and its executives seemed to have been lost in the conflagration. “People
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opponents, and then Ressa herself. She kept pushing Facebook for action. Ressa spoke to all the key policy people—Elliot Schrage, Monika Bickert, Alex Schultz, Sheryl Sandberg—and even was part of a small meeting with Zuckerberg at the annual F8 conference in May 2017, where the CEO met with global developers
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head Elliot Schrage, whose own family suffered losses in the Holocaust, publicly claimed responsibility. Observers saw this as Schrage taking the fall for his boss, Sheryl Sandberg, who insisted she knew nothing about it. Then emails emerged showing that Sandberg might have known something about it after all. This particular episode turned
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. In a rare audio press conference, he was twice asked if he thought that his own resignation was appropriate. The answer was, both times, no. * * * • • • SHERYL SANDBERG WAS fighting too, not just for Facebook, but for the personal brand she had built over a lifetime. In addition to her leadership role in
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does come from Facebook, he added, he personally avoided the service and his children “aren’t allowed to use that shit.” That could not stand. Sheryl Sandberg got in touch with him. Neither party will disclose what was said, but Palihapitiya publicly clawed back his statement. * * * • • • DESPITE THE PUMMELING Facebook was taking
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that neither Facebook nor I expected. Elliot Schrage and Caryn Marooney were key in granting me that access, forwarding my pitch to Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. My guides to Facebook, Bertie Thomson and Derick Mains, skillfully managed to support the project while serving their employer well. My thanks also go to
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Most Popular CEO,” Fortune, February 26, 2016. people were shaken: This characterization of the Facebook office after the 2016 US election comes from interviews with Sheryl Sandberg. “I’ve seen some of the stories”: David Kirkpatrick, “In Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg,” Techonomy.com, November 17, 2016. undercooked goat: Brian Hiatt, “Twitter CEO
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’s background in Ken Auletta, “A Woman’s Place,” The New Yorker, July 4, 2011. wedding toast: Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (Knopf, 2013), 20. Not all: John Dorschner, “Sheryl Sandberg: From North Miami Beach High to Facebook’s No. 2,” Miami Herald, February 26, 2012. Florida Gators
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, Finding Joy (Knopf, 2017). She discussed the loss and its consequences in interviews including Belinda Luscombe, “Life After Grief,” Time, April 13, 2017; Jessi Hempel, “Sheryl Sandberg’s Accidental Revolution,” Backchannel, April 24, 2017. prone to yelling at subordinates: This was described to me by multiple employees who worked with Sandberg. obsessed
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the aftermath of Facebook’s problems. See Nick Bilton, “‘I Hope It Cracks Who She Is Wide Open’: In Silicon Valley, Many Have Long Known Sheryl Sandberg Is Not a Saint,” Vanity Fair, November 16, 2018. The aforementioned New York Times article, “Delay, Deny and Deflect,” which portrays Sandberg as culpable in
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Zuckerberg, 194, 255, 355 on fake news disseminated on FB, 346, 359 and FB’s attempts to impugn competitors, 466 and “FOSS” term (friends of Sheryl Sandberg), 200, 339 and free speech, 470–71 frustrations of, 470–71 and FTC investigations, 479 and goals for the future, 469 at Google, 192–93
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang · 12 Jul 2021 · 372pp · 100,947 words
&T in 1984.1 What she claimed amounted to a sweeping indictment of Facebook’s entire history—and specifically of its leaders, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg.2 “It tells a story from the beginning, the creation of Facebook at Harvard University,” James said. For years, Facebook had exercised a merciless “buy
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to the founders of Instagram and WhatsApp soon after the start-ups were acquired, the states’ complaint further alleged. At Zuckerberg’s side throughout was Sheryl Sandberg, the former Google executive who converted his technology into a profit powerhouse using an innovative and pernicious advertising business that was “surveilling” users for personal
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by presenting a worst-case scenario. One executive was noticeably absent from the September 2015 meeting. Only four months had passed since the death of Sheryl Sandberg’s husband. Security was Sandberg’s responsibility, and Stamos technically fell under her purview. But she had never suggested, nor been consulted about, the sweeping
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surprised when the top grade in the midterm exam went to a student who had barely caught his attention. He struggled to place the name. “Sheryl Sandberg? Who’s that?” he asked a teaching assistant. Oh, the junior with the mop of dark, curly hair and the oversize sweatshirts, he recalled. She
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and non-tech employees, soon developed. The people she poached from Google and hired from her network of Treasury alumni became known as “Friends of Sheryl Sandberg,” or FOSS. Most senior employees were unofficially divided into two camps, “Sheryl people” or “Mark people.”18 It could get territorial. Sandberg gave unsolicited opinions
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about a federal investigation,” David Vladeck, the head of the consumer protection bureau overseeing the investigation, said. “We were surprised that someone as sophisticated as Sheryl Sandberg could be as tone-deaf as she was.” Some had a less charitable interpretation. “Arrogance is her weakness, her blind spot. She believes there is
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leadership. Then, just months after Goldberg’s death, Sandberg had begun to travel again and was embraced by lawmakers. “What a pleasure to visit with Sheryl Sandberg and her team in my Capitol office,” Pelosi had effused in a Facebook post accompanying a photo of the two women in front of a
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line,” observed a Facebook data scientist who worked on the changes. “Mark still wanted people using Facebook as much as possible, as often as possible.” Sheryl Sandberg sat in a sun-filled garden outside her Menlo Park home surrounded by high-resolution cameras set up to stream a live interview with the
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was picked up by news outlets across the world. Outraged members of Congress and researchers who studied right-wing groups accused Facebook of abdicating responsibility. “Sheryl Sandberg, Resign,” read a headline in The New Republic. Days later, indictments began to roll in for the rioters who had taken part in the attacks
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an idiot”: Ibid. 4. “I lost the coin flip as to where we were going to live”: Peter Holley, “Dave Goldberg, Husband of Facebook Exec Sheryl Sandberg, Dies Overnight, Family Says,” Washington Post, May 2, 2015. 5. Sandberg thrived: Brad Stone and Miguel Helft, “Facebook Hires a Google Executive as No. 2
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party: Patricia Sellers, “The New Valley Girls,” Fortune, October 13, 2008. 7. “That they would cross paths was inevitable”: Kara Swisher, “(Almost) New Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Speaks!” AllThingsD, March 10, 2008. 8. Federal Trade Commission issued self-regulatory principles: FTC, “FTC Staff Proposes Online Behavioral Advertising Principles,” press release, December 20
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women: Katherine Losse, The Boy Kings (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2012), p. 24. 13. On Sandberg’s first day: Bianca Bosker, “Mark Zuckerberg Introduced Sheryl Sandberg to Facebook Staff by Saying They Should All ‘Have a Crush on’ Her,” Huffington Post, June 26, 2012, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-zuckerberg
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-sheryl-sandberg-facebook-staff-crush_n_1627641. 14. A month into her new job: David Kirkpatrick, The Facebook Effect (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010), p. 257,
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, “How the Cult of Zuck Will Survive Sheryl’s IPO,” TechCrunch, March 1, 2012. 19. she began wooing the biggest brands: Jessica Guynn, “Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Has a Talent for Making Friends,” Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2012. 20. “Unlike any other executive”: Ibid. 21. the company’s latest innovation: Louise
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Collection in 2016 Memo—and Warned that Facebook Could Get People Killed,” Buzzfeed News, March 29, 2018. 11. When, in June 2012: Facebook, “Facebook Names Sheryl Sandberg to Its Board of Directors,” press release, June 25, 2012. 12. “Her name has become a job title”: Miguel Helft
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, “Sheryl Sandberg: The Real Story,” Fortune, October 10, 2013. 13. She was cultivating new ad tools: Keith Collins and Larry Buchanan, “How Facebook Lets Brands and Politicians
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Ghonim, an Egyptian activist: “Organizer of ‘Revolution 2.0’ Wants to Meet Mark Zuckerberg,” NBC Bay Area website, February 11, 2011. 21. Sandberg responded defensively: “Sheryl Sandberg Pushes Women to ‘Lean In’,” 60 Minutes, CBS, March 10, 2013, can be viewed on YouTube. 22. “People come to a social movement from the
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’s Access to Data,” Business Insider, December 5, 2018. Chapter 12: Existential Threat 1. Sandberg met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Emily Birnbaum, “Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Meets with Senators on Privacy,” The Hill, May 7, 2019. 2. “What a pleasure to visit”: Nancy Pelosi, Facebook post, July 22, 2015. 3. On
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Zealand and France Unveil Plans to Tackle Online Extremism without the US on Board,” CNBC website, May 15, 2019. 11. Weeks later, during a panel: “Sheryl Sandberg Talks Diversity and Privacy at Cannes Lions,” June 19, 2019, video can be viewed on Facebook. 12. “Chopping a great American success story into bits
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bombshell: Nick Clegg, “Facebook, Elections and Political Speech,” Facebook blog post, September 24, 2019. 10. When she took the stage: A.R. Shaw, “Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Confronts Race, Diversity at ‘Civil Rights x Tech’,” A.R. Shaw, Rolling Out, October 4, 2019. 11. Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP’s Legal
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Him to Record Facebook Engagement,” New York Times, October 8, 2020. 10. “I think these events were largely organized”: Reuters, “An Interview with Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg,” January 11, 2021, video can be viewed on Youtube. 11. User reports of violent content: Jeff Horwitz, “Facebook Knew Calls for Violence Plagued ‘Groups,’ Now
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button idea, 90 Facebook Messenger feature, 5, 73, 96, 194, 196, 222–224, 289 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and, 1–3, 225–227 Friends of Sheryl Sandberg (FOSS) and, 55 fundamental dichotomies of people and profit, 300 “good for the world” (GFW) and “cares about users” (CAU) policies, 237 high school students
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
by Emily Chang · 6 Feb 2018 · 334pp · 104,382 words
preeminent role the Valley plays in shaping the future of humanity. “When you write a line of code, you can affect a lot of people,” Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, told me as we sat in her so-called Only Good News conference room at the social network’s headquarters in Menlo
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that so many women in the workforce—and for me, especially in the early years—deal with unwanted advances and harassment the best we can,” Sheryl Sandberg posted on Facebook. “We know that at its core this is about power no one should have over anyone.” While such cases make headlines, there
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say they hated him. Not long after the polls closed, Thiel brokered a meeting between the president-elect and tech leaders, including Facebook’s COO, Sheryl Sandberg, Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, all of whom had openly supported Hillary Clinton. These tech lords had little choice but
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not just best-in-class technology but an unassailable business model. Now the company just needed to scale it. That job would be given to Sheryl Sandberg. Like Wojcicki, Sandberg didn’t have a computer science background. A standout at Harvard, where she majored in economics, Sandberg worked at the World Bank
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as a director. Scott’s memories of her first years there are remarkable, as Silicon Valley stories go. “All of a sudden my bosses were Sheryl Sandberg and Susan Wojcicki,” Scott told me. “I was like, wow, you can really have a vibrant career as a woman and be a great mom
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might be told: Mayer took a grand risk and may have done the best anyone could have, after being dealt a losing hand. LEANING IN Sheryl Sandberg’s impact on both tech and our cultural conversation about women in the workplace has been more dramatic than both Mayer’s and Wojcicki’s
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book also created a cottage industry for writers—virtually all of them women—to critique the advice Sandberg was offering. “Why I Hate Sheryl Sandberg,” “The False Promise of Sheryl Sandberg’s Theory of Change,” and “Why I Won’t Lean In” were just a few of the headlines in prominent newspapers and journals
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that the industry changed. In 2013, when she was an engineer at Pinterest, she attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing and heard Sheryl Sandberg speak. “Sheryl was talking, and she had one line about how the numbers of women in tech were dropping precipitously. I just thought, ‘Who has
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cover the cost—up to $20,000—for women to freeze their eggs, literally putting their fertility on ice. At the time, Facebook’s COO, Sheryl Sandberg, told me the idea for the benefit came about when a young female employee who had recently been diagnosed with cancer confessed she would never
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firms offer their employees. Sperm banking, extensive IVF treatments, and cord-blood banking for newborns are often included, as is support for adoption and surrogacy. Sheryl Sandberg famously asked Sergey Brin to create closer-to-the-door “pregnancy parking” at Google for expectant mothers, then brought the idea with her over to
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myself or my family? That calculation changes as we age, and as kids enter the picture, it becomes a retention issue. In a 2012 interview, Sheryl Sandberg rocked Silicon Valley by revealing that she leaves work at 5:30 p.m. every day. Hard to say which left people more incredulous, that
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been the billion-dollar exit start-up founders dream of, but it’s still pretty damn good. So maybe the 5:30 thing works for Sheryl Sandberg, Bret Taylor, and the average tech worker bee. But what if you’re a first-time entrepreneur who is trying to make a dent in
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” requirement. But it also has to do with the way the site has been architected to balance product and business concerns. Facebook insiders say that Sheryl Sandberg, who joined the team in 2008, was critical in transforming the hugely successful start-up into an equally enormous business. Part of that involved developing
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talk about being mansplained and all sorts of things. I wish it weren’t like this.” They all wished for more female role models like Sheryl Sandberg. Amen to that. But these girls have a very different outlook from women of older generations, and in many respects they are doing pretty well
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of my reporting for Bloomberg, but the vast majority are original interviews that were conducted for the purposes of this book. These include interviews with Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer, Susan Fowler, Niniane Wang, Ellen Pao, Katrina Lake, Reid Hoffman, Evan Williams, Dick Costolo, Max Levchin, Stewart Butterfield, John Doerr, and so many
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,” New York Times, Oct. 8, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html. “I know that so many women”: Sheryl Sandberg, “#metoo. These two simple words . . .” Facebook post, Oct. 16, 2017, https://www.facebook.com/sheryl/posts/10159365581865177. “Travis can spend eight”: Chris Sacca, “Lowercase Capital
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Ended Dec. 31, 2014, Feb. 6, 2015, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000128877615000008/goog2014123110-k.htm. Sandberg’s first assignment: Kashmir Hill, “Sheryl Sandberg to Harvard Biz Grads: ‘Find a Rocket Ship,’” Forbes, May 24, 2012, https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/05/24
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/sheryl-sandberg-to-harvard-biz-grads-find-a-rocket-ship. She went on to create: “Facebook Names Sheryl Sandberg Chief Operating Officer,” Facebook Newsroom, March 4, 2008, https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2008/03/facebook-names
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-sheryl-sandberg-chief-operating-officer. “I think the thing”: Wojcicki, interview by author, Bloomberg, Nov. 14, 2016. “something out of a
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. By that point, Mayer had been leading: Marissa Mayer, “Marissa’s Tumblr,” https://marissamayr.tumblr.com. on the wrong side of history: Richard Branson and Sheryl Sandberg, “Sheryl Sandberg and Richard Branson: Balancing Act (04/24),” interview by author, Bloomberg, April 23, 2015, video, 20:53, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-04
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-25/sheryl-sandberg-richard-branson-balancing-act-04-24-. Under her direction, Facebook’s revenues: Matt Rosoff, “Look at How Much Sheryl Sandberg Has Done for Facebook,” Business Insider, Mar. 23, 2016, http://www.businessinsider.com/sheryl-sandberg-8-years-at-facebook-2016-3. not to “lean
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back”: Sheryl Sandberg, “Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders,” TED talk, Dec. 21, 2010, video
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, 14:58, https://www.ted.com/talks/sheryl_sandberg_why_we_have_too_few_women_leaders. “Although couched in terms”: Anne-Marie Slaughter, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” Atlantic, July/Aug.
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/archive/2012/07/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all/309020. “Why I hate Sheryl”: Rosa Brooks, “Recline, Don’t ‘Lean In’ (Why I Hate Sheryl Sandberg),” Washington Post, Feb. 25, 2014, https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/02/25/recline-dont-lean-in-why-i-hate
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/lean-in-trickle-down-the-false-promise-of-sheryl-sandbergs-theory-of-change/#469c7d5c4256. “Why I Won’t Lean In”: Vanessa Garcia, “Why I Won’t Lean In,” Huffington Post, July 19, 2013, https://www.
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.com/2013/02/24/opinion/sunday/dowd-pompom-girl-for-feminism.html. The Lean In backlash: Anna Holmes, “Maybe You Should Read the Book: The Sheryl Sandberg Backlash,” New Yorker, March 4, 2013, https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/maybe-you-should-read-the-book-the
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-sheryl-sandberg-backlash. CHAPTER 4: DINNER WITH WOMEN ENGINEERS Fowler joined Uber: Susan J. Fowler, “Reflecting on One Very, Very Strange Year at Uber,” www.susanjfowler.com,
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.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/why-is-silicon-valley-so-awful-to-women/517788. she attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women: Sheryl Sandberg et al., “GHC 2013 Keynote Sheryl Sandberg, Maria Klawe, Telle Whitney,” Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Nov. 9, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=362AygQGMGk. Chou
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Balance: Owning Your Future,” shyamsankar.com, Nov. 16, 2015, http://shyamsankar.com/the-case-against-work-life-balance-owning-your-future. In a 2012 interview: Sheryl Sandberg, “I Am Leaving Work at 5:30p,” Makers, 2012, https://www.makers.com/moments/leaving-work-530pm. “couldn’t have gotten more publicity”: Sarah Frier
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, “How Sheryl Sandberg’s Manifesto Drives Facebook,” Bloomberg, April 27, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-27/how-sheryl-sandberg-s-sharing-manifesto-drives-facebook. “Thank you, we’re all leaving”: Ibid. hide her exit time
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: Ibid. “Of course I do”: Sheryl Sandberg, “Sheryl Sandberg: Bloomberg Studio 1.0 (Full Show),” interview by author, Bloomberg, Aug. 9, 2017, video
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, 24:16, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-08-10/sheryl-sandberg-bloomberg-studio-1-0-full-show-video. “broader group of employees”: “Uber Report: Eric Holder’s Recommendations for Change.” A true marvel: Steven Levy, “One
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/may/04/facebook-content-moderators-ptsd-psychological-dangers. In an interview with Axios: Mike Allen, “Exclusive Interview with Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg,” Axios, Oct. 12, 2017, https://www.axios.com/exclusive-interview-facebook-sheryl-sandberg-2495538841.html. “a better place for everyone”: Pao, Reset, 166. When one of the site’s: Mike Isaac, “Details
Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
by Ken Auletta · 1 Jan 2009 · 532pp · 139,706 words
the whole organization to work together. Now it needed to recruit senior executives. With an assist from Campbell, one of Schmidt’s initial targets was Sheryl Sandberg, who had just concluded her service as chief of staff to treasury secretary Lawrence Summers. The Clinton administration was winding down, and Sandberg, who was
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Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, their knowledge can be intimidating, though terror is not commonly part of their motivational arsenal. Their approach can be subtle. Sheryl Sandberg recalled a project she supervised in her role as vice president, global online sales and operations. The story she related could be interpreted as an
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had the first few years, it is the overwhelming opinion of those who work with them that the three men have a smooth working relationship. Sheryl Sandberg observed that the reason the troika “works is that whoever you go to for an answer, that answer sticks.” When you have two parents, a
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for individuals, whose wants are revealed by the cookies Googlezon gathers to track the behavior of its users. Not surprisingly, this depiction jarred Googlers. When Sheryl Sandberg joined the company in late 2001, she believed she had a public mission, a mission parallel to the one she felt as a ranking member
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, a former model who earned her Ph.D. in bioinformatics in January 2009 from Stanford; they married seven months after Brin wed Anne Wojcicki. But Sheryl Sandberg was worried. She had held a ranking job in the Clinton administration before, joining Google in 2001, where she supervised all online sales for AdWords
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, a number of other Googlers left, including executive chef Josef Desimone. Many who left did so out of frustration. The most prominent of them was Sheryl Sandberg. Frustrated by what friends say was sometimes chaotic management at Google, and wanting broader responsibilities to address these, Sandberg left in March 2008 to accept
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the management upheaval that loomed ahead. With a number of relatively young senior executives blocking the upward path of the next tier, what happened with Sheryl Sandberg was happening with others. In February, Tim Armstrong, thirty-eight, announced that he was leaving to become CEO of AOL. A popular figure at Google
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that one day its cold war with Facebook could turn hot. By March 2009, Facebook had 200 million users, double the number it had when Sheryl Sandberg joined a year earlier. Sandberg projected that by the end of the year, Facebook would have 1,200 employees. Despite sneers that Facebook makes no
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valley”: author interview with Marc Andreessen, September 15, 2008. 85 one of Schmidt’s initial targets ... “all things take care of themselves”: author interviews with Sheryl Sandberg, September 10, 2007, and September 18, 2008. 87 “Before Sheryl arrived”: author interview with Mary Meeker, January 23, 2009. 87 Advertising ... had not been viewed
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“Google was really trying”: author interview with Benjamin A. Schachter, February 15, 2008. 88 the effort at Sandberg was now working on: author interview with Sheryl Sandberg, October 11, 2007. 88 What Google was quietly exploring ... monitorthe results online: author interviews with Salar Kamangar, March 27, 2008; Marissa Mayer, March 25, 2008
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; Susan Wojcicki, April 16, 2008; Hal Varian, March 27, 2008; and Sheryl Sandberg, September 18, 2008. 90 Israeli entrepreneur Yossi Vardi : author interview with Sergey Brin, September 18, 2008; Brin interview, Haaretz.com, June 2, 2008. 90 “AdWords
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, September 12, 2007. 114 ”to force a conversation“: author interview with Eric Schmidt, September 12, 2007. 115 ”Some companies would be worried“: author interview with Sheryl Sandberg, October 11, 2007. 115 ”people saw values we believed in“: author interview with Craig Newmark, January 11, 2008. 115 the reason the troika ”works is
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that whoever you go to“: author interview with Sheryl Sandberg, October 11, 2007. 116 ”Eric is the leader for the company“: author interview with Sergey Brin, October 11, 2007. 116 ”I can’t imagine“: author
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. 117 ”the best business partner“: annual Google shareholder meeting attended by author, May 10, 2007. 117 ”Eric is the person who said“: author interview with Sheryl Sandberg, October 11, 2007. 117 ”I’ve become a huge cheerleader“: author interview with Michael Moritz, March 31, 2009. 118 an incident at the 2005 World
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: The New Evil Empire? (2004-2005) 122 a faux documentary by two young journalists: EPIC 2014 available on YouTube. 122 ”evil empire“: author interview with Sheryl Sandberg, October 10, 2007. 122 ”Did not begin until Google went public“: author interview with Eric Schmidt, April 16, 2008. 122 It took Microsoft fifteen years
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Google press release found on Google.com. 197 Twenty countries: annual founders’ letter, March 26, 2008. 197 “We’re an engineering company”: author interview with Sheryl Sandberg, October 7, 2007. 197 “basic principles”: Eric Schmidt August 21, 2007 keynote address to the Progress and Freedom Foundation dinner available on YouTube. 198 “That
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, June 26, 2008. 324 “These companies air kiss”: author interview with Andrew Lack, October 4, 2007. 324 Facebook had 200 million users: author interview with Sheryl Sandberg, March 30, 2009. 324 “Anybody that gets”: author interview with Bill Campbell, October 8, 2007. 325 Lee began with : author interview with Kwan Lee, February
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
by Roger McNamee · 1 Jan 2019 · 382pp · 105,819 words
fix it. When historians finish with this corner of history, I suspect that they will cut Facebook some slack about the poor choices that Zuck, Sheryl Sandberg, and their team made as the company grew. I do. Making mistakes is part of life, and growing a startup to global scale is immensely
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or user protest, forces change. * * * — TEN DAYS BEFORE the November 2016 election, I had reached out formally to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, two people I considered friends, to share my fear that bad actors were exploiting Facebook’s architecture and business model to inflict harm on innocent
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bands that showed an interest was U2. They found me through a friend of Bono’s at the Department of the Treasury, a woman named Sheryl Sandberg. I met Bono and the Edge at Morgan Stanley’s offices in Los Angeles on the morning after the band had won a Grammy for
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, someone who could be a chief operating officer or president. He said yes. I did not say anything, but a name sprang to mind immediately: Sheryl Sandberg. Sheryl had been chief of staff to Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers during Bill Clinton’s second term. In that job, she had partnered
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have been obvious to a more experienced team. The team may have been young, but they were smart, highly motivated, and persistent. Their leadership, with Sheryl Sandberg at the top, created a successful sales culture. They took a long view and learned from every mistake. They focused on metrics. In the early
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prior informed consent or providing any warning, Facebook made people sad just to see if it could be done. Confronted with a tsunami of criticism, Sheryl Sandberg said this: “This was part of ongoing research companies do to test different products, and that was what it was; it was poorly communicated. And
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enables Facebook to centralize its decision making. There is a core team of roughly ten people who manage the company, but two people—Zuck and Sheryl Sandberg—are the final arbiters of everything. They have surrounded themselves with a team of brilliant operators who executed the strategy of maximum growth almost flawlessly
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known for micromanaging products and for being decisive. He is the undisputed boss. Zuck’s subordinates study him and have evolved techniques for influencing him. Sheryl Sandberg is brilliant, ambitious, and supremely well organized. When Sheryl speaks, she chooses her words very carefully. In an interview, for example, she has mastered the
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points to suggest that Stamos had pushed for greater transparency with respect to Facebook’s role in the 2016 election but had been overruled by Sheryl Sandberg and Elliot Schrage. A few journalists noted that Stamos’s own history made him less sympathetic than he might have been. For example, he led
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could go back to making money. The relatively small number who were troubled by Facebook’s behavior expressed shock that Sheryl could be so unconvincing. Sheryl Sandberg knows she is capable of achieving any goal to which she commits herself. People who know Sheryl well cannot help but agree. Her talents are
The New Prophets of Capital
by Nicole Aschoff · 10 Mar 2015 · 128pp · 38,187 words
the Library of Congress Typeset in Fournier MT by Hewer Text UK Ltd, Edinburgh Printed in the US by Maple Press Contents Introduction: Storytelling 1.Sheryl Sandberg and the Business of Feminism 2.Capital’s Id: Whole Foods, Conscious Capitalism and Sustainability 3.The Oracle of O: Oprah and the Neoliberal Subject
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working people, they are the super-elite. The loudest critics of capitalism these days are people like Bill Gates, who decries poverty and inequality, and Sheryl Sandberg, who laments persistent gender divides, but they are not calling for an end to capitalism. Instead, they are part of a chorus of new elite
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capitalism—illustrates the widespread feeling that capitalism needs to change. The New Prophets of Capitalism examines the stories told by four of these new storytellers: Sheryl Sandberg (COO of Facebook), John Mackey (CEO of Whole Foods), Oprah Winfrey (media mogul), and Bill and Melinda Gates (creators of the Gates Foundation).7 I
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to reveal the true, nonideological world. Ideology is the world itself, inhabiting and structuring all the spaces in which we live and think.9 Oprah, Sheryl Sandberg, and the others are not trying to hide the true structures of power behind our daily interactions. Their stories are a reflection of the capitalist
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to argue why we should be skeptical of their claims to alleviate poverty, environmental degradation, inequality, and alienation. I begin by focusing on Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s call for women to lean in and seize positions of power and her broader contention that all feminist strategies are compatible with one another
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, “A Reasoned Utopia and Economic Fatalism,” New Left Review 1: 227, 1998, 125–30, quoted in Weeks, The Problem with Work, pp. 180–81. 1 Sheryl Sandberg and the Business of Feminism Fifteen years ago Silicon Valley was inhabited by packs of brogrammers slouching around in hoodies and sandals, hacking code on
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gold rush. Tech mammoths like Facebook, IBM, Yahoo!, Hewlett-Packard, and Google all employ women in leading roles. But despite the power of women like Sheryl Sandberg, Ginni Rometty, Marissa Meyer, Meg Whitman, and Susan Wojcicki, the gender balance in Silicon Valley and the larger corporate world remains highly skewed, and most
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drop from the previous year. And 2013 marked the first time women held twenty seats in the US Senate. This is the world into which Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, launched her “sort of manifesto”, as she called it, in 2013.1 Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will
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wage theft are the norm.7 Are Women Their Own Worst Enemies? All feminists recognize the systemic aspects of women’s subordination, but some, like Sheryl Sandberg, don’t believe that the laundry list of external barriers explains the persistent failure of women to take their rightful place as equal members of
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woman could become a fully formed adult was to get an education and then passionately follow her intellectual interests to a career outside the home. Sheryl Sandberg is in many respects extending the argument Friedan made, but instead of telling women to get out of the kitchen, Sandberg commands them to get
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In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. 2Sandberg, Lean In, pp. 146–7, 63, 157–8. 3Miguel Helft, “Sheryl Sandberg: The Real Story,” Forbes, October 10, 2013. 4Ibid. 5These data come from an excellent two-part article by Gerald Friedman, “The Wages of Gender,” in
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. 296. 10Sandberg, Lean In, p. 9. 11Ibid., p. 17. 12Ibid., p. 23. 13Sandberg, Lean In, pp. 24–5. 14Ken Auletta, “A Woman’s Place: Can Sheryl Sandberg Upend Silicon Valley’s Male-Dominated Culture?” New Yorker, July 11, 2011. 15Sandberg, Lean In, p. 58. 16Nancy Fraser, “Feminism, Capitalism, and the Cunning of
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struggles for a better life through corporations. The solutions proposed by these new prophets are seductive and resonant. Most of us share the concerns of Sheryl Sandberg, John Mackey, Oprah Winfrey, and Bill and Melinda Gates, and we long for simple, feasible ways to improve society. But the stories and solutions they
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the super-elite. People with money and power are preaching a new spirit of capitalism that absorbs and displaces radical criticisms of the status quo. Sheryl Sandberg, John Mackey, Oprah Winfrey, Bill and Melinda Gates, and others like them are developing a new ideology for why capitalism is the only, and best
The Facebook Effect
by David Kirkpatrick · 19 Nov 2010 · 455pp · 133,322 words
be more open across more contexts. I think they have to worry less all the time about being who they actually are.” But Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, thirty-nine, looks at it slightly differently. “Mark really does believe very much in transparency and the vision of an open society and open world
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continues. “That’s just how the world is going to work in the future as a consequence of technology regardless of what Facebook does.” Even Sheryl Sandberg takes evident pride when she says, “You can’t be on Facebook without being your authentic self.” Members of Facebook’s radical transparency camp, Zuckerberg
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Van Natta of their decision in early January and begin a search. At a Christmas party in mid-December, Zuckerberg got into a conversation with Sheryl Sandberg. She was a senior executive at Google who had built the search company’s self-service ad business into one of the economic powerhouses of
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into a lasting, moneymaking business? It was a question that could elicit a surprisingly broad range of answers even among senior executives at Facebook when Sheryl Sandberg arrived. Zuckerberg didn’t have a good answer, though that didn’t bother him much. But Sandberg, who is a very methodical manager, was intent
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the National Economic Council at the White House. When Summers had been secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton his chief of staff had been Sheryl Sandberg. Summers and Sandberg have remained close, and some senior people at the company worried she might join the new administration and thought it a real
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old Swiss restaurant in Davos during the January 2009 World Economic Forum, the celebrated annual gathering of government and industry leaders. To his right is Sheryl Sandberg, and at the other end of the small table is Larry Page, Google’s co-founder. Accel Partners, Facebook’s primary venture capital investor, is
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, even as it has surpassed Google and all other sites in the total time its users spend there. As for employees, Zuckerberg’s hiring of Sheryl Sandberg, as well as top Google communications executive Elliot Schrage, did not go over well at Google. In January 2008, Zuckerberg rode to Davos on the
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included Jim Breyer, Matt Cohler, Chris Cox, Kevin Efrusy, Joe Green, Chris Hughes, Chris Kelly, Dave Morin, Dustin Moskovitz, Chamath Palihapitiya, Sean Parker, Dan Rose, Sheryl Sandberg, and Aaron Sittig. Other interviews at Facebook included Carolyn Abram, Aditya Agarwal, Ethan Beard, Charlie Cheever, Kevin Colleran, Adam D’Angelo, Gareth Davis, Dave Fetterman
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the FARC terrorist group. It all started on Facebook, in Oscar Morales’s upstairs bedroom in Barranquilla. (Photo by Alberto Acero/courtesy Periodico El Tiempo) Sheryl Sandberg left Google in early 2008 to help turn Facebook into a real business. She and Zuckerberg established an effective working relationship. Revenues have grown to
The End of Men: And the Rise of Women
by Hanna Rosin · 31 Aug 2012 · 320pp · 96,006 words
to walk through the offices of Facebook or Google every day and not notice the sea of mostly male programmers, or the “frat house,” as Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, calls it. It’s more that they think of sexism in the same way people in London must think about bad weather
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you. That’s just not realistic.” It was her first lesson, she recalls, in learning how to survive in a male-dominated environment. Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg has always advised women to negotiate with nearly the exact same language that Bowles settled on in her study. Sandberg’s version of the script
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almost no other choice that you can make that will have as much of an impact—positive or negative—on your career,” says Sallie Krawcheck. Sheryl Sandberg tells women at every speech she gives that “your most important career decision is who you marry.” And then sometimes she adds, depending on the
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-care arrangements is not just a logistical matter; it’s about rooting out deep and crippling assumptions women hold long before they even have children. Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook beautifully reframed the issue of women and work in her 2010 TED talk with her memorable phrase “Don’t leave before you leave
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government incentives, Dutch women do not want to work full-time, because they would rather have their afternoons free for coffee with friends. I asked Sheryl Sandberg about this once. What if it’s innate that women are allergic to a certain kind of ambition? What if women are somehow programmed to
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want the future to contain fewer energy-draining meetings and a more family-friendly workplace, you need more women to make it to Sheryl Sandberg’s level. Not just for Sheryl Sandberg’s benefit, but for the millions of women who have a lot less power to make demands. You need women at the
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Leibovich, Mark Leibovich, Daniel Lichter, Wendy Manning, Amanda Marcotte, Marta Meana, Sharon Meers, Tom Mortenson, Linda Perlstein, Zhenchao Qian, Mark Regnerus, Amanda Ripley, Katie Roiphe, Sheryl Sandberg, Amanda Schaffer, Larry Summers, Rebecca Traister, Bruce Weinberg, Richard Whitmire, Brad Wilcox, Philip Zimbardo. Each has in some way, either through their writing or in
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-091, September 1997, http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/fathers/. memorable phrase “Don’t leave before you leave”: Sheryl Sandberg, “Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders,” TED Talk, December 2010. http://www.ted.com/talks/sheryl_sandberg_why_we_have_too_few_women_leaders.html. “There was no having it all”: Barbara Walters, interview
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