Aug 05, 2011 How Sheryl Sandberg Became COO of Facebook
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In 2008, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Sheryl Sandberg would become the first Chief Operating Officer of Facebook. She left her VP of Global Online Sales and Operations position at Google for a company that was bleeding cash and desperately needed to figure out how to make itself a business. Well, Sheryl Sandberg did exactly that and Facebook had finally become profitable in 2010. Here’s the full story by the The New Yorker