“Until we make ambition something we admire in females, we will not have a female president, or we will have one and then not another one for the next three decades.”
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Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Kara Sandberg is an American technology executive, philanthropist and writer. She was the chief operating officer of Meta Platforms from 2008 to 2022 and is the founder of LeanIn.Org.
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Born 28 August 1969 · Q234653
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What would happen if we had real partners? We will never get to real equality in our workplaces until we get to equality at home.
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2026· 9 entries
“What would happen if we had real partners? We will never get to real equality in our workplaces until we get to equality at home.”
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“Everyone can come to the table, but it”
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“She repaid that loyalty when Summers got into hot water for suggesting innate differences between men and women might be one reason that fewer women succeed in science- and maths-based careers. Sandberg wrote that Summers had been”
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“s clear that Sandberg believes women, in part, have to take some of the blame for their under-representation at the top level.”
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“s version of Davos. There too she was calling for more sex equality:”
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“When it comes to poverty, everyone suffers – women and men, girls and boys. But the crushing blow of poverty often falls heavier on females. If we get this right for women, everyone will be better off.”
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The Wall Street Journal: Sheryl Sandberg
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Bloomberg L.P.: Sheryl Sandberg Says Nscale and Its CEO Remind Her of Early Facebook
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2025· 3 entries
TechCrunch: Sheryl Sandberg-backed Flint wants to use AI to autonomously build and update websites
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Yahoo: Sheryl Sandberg, Bill Gates, and the world’s top CEOs swear by the same daily habit—this career coach says Gen Z can easily steal it for success
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Business Insider: Mark Zuckerberg praises Sheryl Sandberg and denies report that said he blamed her for an inclusivity program at Facebook
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2024· 2 entries
People: Sheryl Sandberg on 'the Most Important Work of My Life’: Telling the Stories of Women Raped on Oct. 7
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Yahoo: Sheryl Sandberg Says ‘Screams Before Silence’ Is the Most Important Work She’s Ever Done: ‘Women’s Bodies Need to Be Protected’ | Video
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2022· 3 entries
Sandberg announced she would be leaving Meta as COO in the fall of 2022 but would remain on the board of directors
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Announced she would be stepping down from Meta in the fall but would remain on its board
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“it is time for me to write the next chapter of my life.”
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2021· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Asked if Facebook could have done anything sooner to help prevent the U.S. Capitol riot, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said, "I think these events were largely organized on platforms that don’t have our abilities to stop hate, and don’t have our standards, and don’t have our transparency.”” Correct Attribution.
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Sandberg and her husband, Tom Bernthal, launched Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners to invest their own capital in start-ups
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2020· 1 entry
Announced her engagement on Facebook to Kelton Global CEO Tom Bernthal
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2018· 3 entries
The New York Times reported that Sandberg had personally asked Facebook's communications staff to conduct research into George Soros's finances days after Soros publicly criticized tech companies, including Facebook, at
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Gave the Commencement Address for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA
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Detailing Sandberg's role in handling Facebook's public relations after revelations of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and its Cambridge Analytica data scandal
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2017· 2 entries
Published “GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral” in Physical Review Letters — cited 8,280 times.
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Published “Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 3,678 times.
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2016· 7 entries
Time: Sheryl Sandberg Wants More Women to Run for Office
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The Daily Beast: WATCH: Sheryl Sandberg’s Powerful Commencement Speech About Resilience
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These campaigns occurred first in 2016 (when Sandberg and Kotick began dating), and again in 2019 (the year they broke up).
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Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
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Delivered the Commencement Address at the University of California, Berkeley graduation ceremony
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(when Sandberg and Kotick began dating), and again in 2019 (the year they broke up)
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In November 2016, Sandberg renamed her Lean In Foundation to the Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg Family Foundation, after herself and her late husband.
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2015· 3 entries
Dave Goldberg died unexpectedly, and his death was originally reported as resulting from sustaining a head trauma falling from a treadmill while the couple was vacationing in Mexico
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Published “Advanced LIGO” in Classical and Quantum Gravity — cited 3,150 times.
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Signed an open letter which the ONE Campaign had been collecting signatures for; the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7
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2014· 1 entry
Published “Full-length RNA-seq from single cells using Smart-seq2” in Nature Protocols — cited 4,109 times.
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award (2013).
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2012· 6 entries
Awarded Time 100 (2012).
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Became the eighth member of Facebook's board of directors
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Career landmark: board member (2012).
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Was named in the Time 100, an annual list of the most influential people in the world
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Newsweek and The Daily Beast released their first "Digital Power Index", a list of the 100 most significant people in the digital world that year (plus 10 additional "Lifetime Achievement" winners), and she was ranked No
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Was named in Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world assembled by Time
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2009· 4 entries
Career landmark: board member (2009).
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Sandberg was named to the board of The Walt Disney Company
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“I think equal maternity and paternity leave are hugely important. How are we going to teach men to be equals if the average woman takes three months and the average man takes two weeks?”
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Published “NOMENCLATURE FOR CENTROMERIC POSITION ON CHROMOSOMES” in Hereditas — cited 3,964 times.
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2008· 3 entries
Career landmark: chief operating officer (2008–2022).
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Published “Alternative isoform regulation in human tissue transcriptomes” in Nature — cited 4,529 times.
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Sandberg wrote an article for The Huffington Post in support of her mentor, Larry Summers, who was under fire for his comments about women
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2006· 1 entry
Published “The Genome of Black Cottonwood, <i>Populus trichocarpa</i> (Torr. & Gray)” in Science — cited 3,747 times.
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2004· 1 entry
Married Dave Goldberg, then an executive with Yahoo
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2002· 1 entry
“One hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, 13% are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top, C-level jobs, board seats, tops out at 15-16%. The numbers have not moved since 2002, and are going in the wrong direction.”
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2001· 2 entries
Career landmark: vice president (2001–2008).
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Where she was responsible for online sales of Google's advertising and publishing products as well as for sales operations of Google's consumer products and Google Book Search
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1996· 1 entry
Career landmark: Chief of Staff (1996–2001).
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1995· 2 entries
Studied at Harvard Business School, Master of Business Administration (1993–1995).
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Career landmark: business consultant (1995–1996).
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1993· 1 entry
Enrolled at Harvard Business School and in 1995 she earned her MBA degree, graduating with the highest distinction
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1991· 3 entries
Studied at Harvard College, Bachelor of Arts (1987–1991).
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Published “Universal Approximation Using Radial-Basis-Function Networks” in Neural Computation — cited 3,486 times.
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Summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and was awarded the John H
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1987· 1 entry
Sandberg enrolled at Harvard College
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1969· 1 entry
Born 1969-08-28.
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