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Sheryl Sandberg

Former chief operating officer of Facebook; founder of LeanIn.org

United States · b. 1969

Was chief operating officer of Facebook, later Meta, from 2008 to 2022, and previously a vice-president at Google. Wrote Lean In (2013) and founded the non-profit LeanIn.org. Her husband, Dave Goldberg, died suddenly in 2015.

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How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure?

Day one of my first job out of college, my boss found out that I didn't know how to enter data into Lotus 1-2-3. That's a spreadsheet—ask your parents. His mouth dropped open and he said, ‘I can't believe you got this job without knowing that”—and then walked out of the room. I went home convinced that I was going to be fired. I thought I was terrible at everything… but it turns out I was only terrible at spreadsheets.

Recorded University of California, Berkeley Commencement, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2016 source

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