Sheryl Sandberg Is Leaving Facebook, Meta After 14 Years
Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down as COO of Meta and Facebook after 14 years.
"When I took this job in 2008, I hoped I would be in this role for five years. Fourteen years later, it is time for me to write the next chapter of my life," Sandberg wrote in a Facebook post(Opens in a new window). "I am not entirely sure what the future will bring – I have learned no one ever is. But I know it will include focusing more on my foundation and philanthropic work, which is more important to me than ever given how critical this moment is for women."
Sandberg will remain at the company until the fall, and she'll continue to serve on Meta’s board of directors. In a separate Facebook post(Opens in a new window), CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Javier Olivan, currently Chief Growth Officer, will take on the COO role.
"This role will be different from what Sheryl has done," according to Zuckerberg. "It will be a more traditional COO role where Javi will be focused internally and operationally, building on his strong track record of making our execution more efficient and rigorous."
When Sandberg joined Facebook in 2008 from Google, the social network had been around for four years; a "small startup" that was "chaotic," as she describes it in her goodbye note.
Fast forward another four years and Facebook had a billion users and Sandberg was about to make a splash with Lean In, a book that became a mantra for many women in the early 2010s. She then faced personal tragedy when her husband David Goldberg, CEO of Surveymonkey, died suddenly in 2015.
More recently, as Facebook's reach ballooned to 2 billion users, it faced a number of scandals, from failing to get a handle on disinformation, particularly as it related to the 2016 election, to
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