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Sheryl Sandberg, who helped to turn Facebook into digital advertising empire, to leave company board

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Sheryl Sandberg, who helped to turn Facebook into digital advertising empire, to leave company board

[ad_1] Sheryl Sandberg, who helped to transform Facebook from a tech startup into a digital advertising empire, will step down from the board of Meta, Facebook's parent company.“With a heart filled with gratitude and a mind filled with memories, I let the Meta board know that I will not stand for reelection this May,” Sandberg wrote in a Facebook post. Sandberg left Google to join Facebook in 2008, four years before the company went public. As the No. 2 executive at Meta under CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Sandberg also took a lot of heat for some of its biggest missteps. She stepped down as chief operating officer of Meta in 2022 but remained a member of the company board. She had served as COO of Facebook, and then Meta, for 14 and a half years and as a board member for 12 years.“Under Mark's ...

Women in Tech Are Forever Cast as ‘Adults’ But Rarely as CEO

[ad_1] In the early years of Facebook, the startup's motto was “move fast and break things.”This was before the Cambridge Analytica scandal, before the platform was used to spread election and COVID-19 vaccine misinformation — essentially before we knew how much potential social media really had to, well, break things. But the problem with breaking things is that you need someone to eventually come along and clean up the mess. Enter Sheryl Sandberg. Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg never hid the fact that he brought on Sandberg as COO to handle “ things I don't want to.” That included figuring out how the company would make money, but also acting as the antidote to his hoodie-wearing, college-dropout persona. Fifteen years Zuckerberg's senior, Sandberg was literally and figuratively the...

Sheryl Sandberg Donates $3 Million to ACLU for Abortion Causes

[ad_1] Sheryl Sandberg, who once sparred with the American Civil Liberties Union, is now one of its biggest benefactors. Sheryl Sandberg, who once sparred with the American Civil Liberties Union, is now one of its biggest benefactors, providing a $3 million grant to boost its political activities around access to abortion.The gift from the former Meta Platforms Inc. chief operating officer, which will be announced Tuesday, is one of the biggest abortion-rights grants ever received by the 102-year-old nonprofit, according to its longtime executive director Anthony Romero. The money will give the ACLU's political arm a “running start” against state anti-abortion efforts spurred by the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade in June, he said. Abortion rights are rising to be one of th...