Sheryl Sandberg And Her Role In The Technological world.

Sheryl Sandberg

We often see how men are running the Tech world from Steve Jobs to Mark Zukerberg and neglect the women working right beside them. In this article, we will give the credit where its due to a female COO of Facebook to remind us of the role women play helped in the male-dominated field of technology. Women’s contributions are frequently left out or are unheard of, In this article are going to talk about Sheryl Sandberg the COO of Facebook.

Born: August 28^th,1969

Education: Harvard University (AB, MBA)

Occupation: COO of Facebook (2008 to Present)

Board Member of:

·       Women for Women International

·        Center for Global Development 

·       V-Day

Nationality: American.

Sheryl Sandberg is the chief operating officer for Facebook and the world’s the first woman included in Facebook’s board of directors and is worth an estimated $1.6 billion.

Sheryl Sandberg is one of the wealthiest women in the world With a reported net worth of $1.6 billion nearly 10 years at Facebook

She has been with the company since it was a small set up and now she is one of the most recognizable faces in Silicon Valley.

Early Career

·       Graduated from business school in the spring of 1995

·       Started working for McKinsey & Company as a management consultant for approximately one year (1995–1996).

·       From 1996 to 2001 she worked for Larry Summers, who was serving as the United States Secretary of the Treasury at the time of President Bill Clinton.

·        Sandberg worked with the Treasury during the Asian financial crisis on forgiving debt in the developing world.

·       After that, she joined Google, where she was responsible for online sales of Google's an advertising and publishing products as well as for sales operations of Google's consumer products and Google Book Search. Under her supervision, the ad and sales team grew from 4 people to 4,000

Facebook

·       Mark Zuckerberg the Chief Executive and Co-founder of Facebook met Sandberg in 2007 in a Christmas party held by dan Rosensweig.

·       Zuckerberg was not necessarily looking for a Chief Operating Officer (COO) but when he met Sandberg Zukerberg found her to be the perfect fit for the role offered to her later as the COO of the company.
·       Facebook announced about Sandberg leaving Google and joining them as the COO of the company in March 2008.
·       After joining the company, Sandberg started looking for a way to make Facebook profitable before her the company was primarily interested in building a really cool site and didn’t give much thought to make it profitable.
·       At the end of the spring of 2008 Facebook's leadership had agreed to start advertising with the ads discreetly presented and by 2010, Facebook became profitable.
·        According to Facebook, Sandberg oversees the firm's business operations including sales, marketing, business development, human resources, public policy, and communications.
·       In 2012 Sandberg became the first woman and the eighth member of Facebook’s board of directors.
·       In April 2014, it was reported that Sandberg had sold over half of her shares in Facebook since the company went public. At the time of Facebook's IPO she held approximately 41 million shares in the company; after several rounds of sales she is left with around 17.2 million shares, amounting to a stake of 0.5% in the company, worth about $1 billion.
·        She led the social media company from a $56 million loss to $22.1 billion in profits in 10 years from 2008 to 2018.
·       She turned Facebook into a small business advertising platform which helped in increasing its ad revenue by 38% in 2018.
·       For the past 2 years she has defended Facebook in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the ongoing data privacy risks for its 2 billion users.
·       Sandberg’s reputation came under fire in late 2018 when the New York Times report on her involvement in a plan to discredit George Soros and other critics.
·       Despite the controversy, Zuckerberg has shown his confidence in Sandberg's leadership and her future at Facebook.

Along with running Facebook successfully she is an Author and Entrepreneur and a women rights activist, all in all she is an inspiration that little girls can look up and be inspired to work in the Technological word.