Sheryl Sandberg

“In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders” – Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg, The COO of Facebook, hails from a family of doctors and educationalists, a family of fighters fighting the great depression. Right from her high school she was always at the top of her class, from being the sophomore class president to a member of the National Honor Society and also on the senior class executive board.

After her high school, Sandberg enrolled at Harvard college and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Economics in 1991. She was given the John H. Williams prize for the top graduating student in Economics. Her interests in woman and their development was evident from her college days; she co-founded an organization called Women in Economics and Government while in college. She also dealt with leprosy, AIDS, and blindness health projects in India under assistance of her professor Larry Summers. In 1993 back in Harvard, she completed her MBA with the highest distinction.

Sheryl’s first job after her graduation in 1995 was with McKinsey & Company. In 1996, she went on to serve as Chief of staff to the US secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, under the president, Bill Clinton. In 2001, she joined Google Inc., as its vice president of global online sales and operations. Sandberg was with google until 2008, and her tenure was noticeable by spectacular professional accomplishments and an impressive status as one of the growing top executives of the country.

Sheryl met Mark Zuckerberg, the co founder and chief executive of Facebook in a Christmas party in 2007. The party was hosted by Dan Rosenweig who was the COO of yahoo! . Zuckerberg’s meeting with Sheryl left him a feeling that she was a perfect fit for the COO he was looking for. By March 2008 they had finally closed the deal and Facebook announced the joining of Sheryl Sandberg while she announced her leaving Google. Sheryl’s first task in the company was to understand how to make Facebook profitable. Shortly after her joining, Facebook introduced advertisements and had now decided to depend on advertisements, albeit with some discretion. Facebook became profitable by 2010 as a consequence of adoption this strategy, taking Sandberg to new heights.

Although Sandberg has been working hard and has a focused mindset, she has a special place for women. Acting as a crusade to change women’s position in the workforce, she has employed famous personalities and toured around the world to make it happen. “A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes,” is Sheryl Sandberg’s dream .

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