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Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

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Although she was born in the country’s capital in 1969, Sandberg and her family moved to Miami when she was 2-years-old. She later attended North Miami Beach High School, where she graduated in the top 10 of her class.
While in high school in the 1980s, Sandberg was an aerobics instructor clad in leggings, leg warmers and bright eye shadow. Later in college, she supposedly ran the Harvard aerobics program.
Studying gender and economics at Harvard, Sandberg co-founded the group Women in Economics and Government on-campus.
While at Harvard, Sandberg wrote her thesis, “How Economic Inequality Contributes to Spousal Abuse.” At the time, her thesis advisor and mentor was Larry Summers, who served as the treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, the director of the National Economic Council for President Barack Obama and the chief economist at the World Bank.
Sandberg graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1991. She majored in economics and was also awarded the John H. Williams Prize for being one of the top graduated of economics.
Sandberg graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1991. She majored in economics and was also awarded the John H. Williams Prize for being one of the top graduated of economics.
Sandberg went back to Harvard to earn her MBA. She graduated in 1995 with the highest distinction.
In 1999, at 29-years-old, Sandberg served as chief of staff to then U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers under the Clinton administration. She had prior worked for Summers as a research assistant at the World Bank.
In 1993, when she was 24, Sandberg married her first husband Brian Kraff. However, their marriage only lasted for a year and by 1994, the couple divorced.
Before becoming COO at Facebook in 2008, Sandberg was Google’s VP of global online sales. She spent six years at Google, managing online sales channels for AdWords and AdSense.
In 2007, Sandberg and Zuckerberg met at Silicon Valley financier Dan Rosensweig’s Christmas party. A year later, Sandberg joined the Facebook team.
It took some convincing from Google’s Eric Schmidt, who was the company’s CEO at the time, to get Sandberg to join Google. Sandberg shared that in 2001, Schmidt told her, “Don’t be an idiot. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don’t ask what seat. You just get on.”
Sandberg launched the “Ban Bossy” campaign to empower women from a young age. She believes the “b-word” doesn’t encourage women to lead. And the campaign’s website reads: “Words like bossy send a message: Don’t speak up or take the lead. By middle school, girls are less interested in leading than boys — a trend that continues into adulthood.”
In 2012, four years into Sandberg’s career as Facebook’s COO, Sandberg became the first woman to join Facebook’s board of directors.
In 2015, Sandberg’s husband and then CEO of Survey Monkey Dave Goldberg passed away unexpectedly during a vacation in Punta Mita, Mexico. Sandberg and Goldberg were married for 11 years, with two children.
In order to rebound from the crushing loss of her husband, Sandberg wrote the book, Option B, where she shares her personal experience of dealing with loss, and how she found the strength to persevere and find happiness once again.
In a 2015 Reddit post, Sandberg shared how Facebook helped her recover from the loss of her husband, because it showed her the massive amount of support she had from across the globe. “Facebook is helping me get through what has been the hardest year of my life… Recovering from loss is a huge part of the human condition and by connecting with people on Facebook I was reminded that I was part of that global community.”
In order to relax and unwind after a busy day, Sandberg admitted in a 2015 Reddit post that she indulges in some “bad TV,” as her late husband would call it.
Sandberg is old-school when it comes to organization. In fact, according to Fast Company, she carries around a spiral-bound notebook where she keeps meeting notes and discussion points.
Before starting meetings with her leadership team, Sandberg checks in with members of the meeting, inviting them to share their current emotional and professional state before getting down to business.
Sandberg usually arrives at work around 7 a.m., and then leaves sharply at 5:30 p.m. so she can spend time with her children. By 9:30 p.m., Sandberg goes to bed.
In her conference room hangs a poster that reads: “The future belongs to the few of us still willing to get our hands dirty.” Turns out, this poster was actually a gift from Starbucks’ Howard Schultz and is one of Sandberg’s favorite things.

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Sheryl Kara Sandberg was born on August 28, 1969 in Washington, D.C. to Joel Sandberg, an ophthalmologist, and Adele Sandberg, a French language teacher, who left her job and Ph.D. studies to raise her children. She and her younger siblings, David and Michelle, were raised in North Miami Beach, Florida, where the family relocated when she was only two.
She attended Highland Oaks Middle School in North Miami-Dade and in 10th grade, entered North Miami Beach High School, from where she graduated on 1987 with a 4.646 GPA. During her high school years, she was a member of the National Honor Society, was the sophomore class president, was on the senior class executive board and also taught aerobics.
In 1991, she graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard College and, as the top graduating student in economics, was awarded the John H. Williams Prize. Her then-professor Larry Summers offered to provide advice on her thesis paper, and also supported the group ‘Women in Economics and Government’ that she co-founded.
She was Summers’ research assistant at the World Bank for about a year, during which time she worked on health projects in India dealing with leprosy, AIDS, and blindness. She entered Harvard Business School in 1993, and two years later, earned her MBA with highest distinction.

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Sheryl Sandberg has been named into the list of most powerful women by ‘Forbes’ many times in the past and currently ranks fourth on the list. Over the past decade, she has made into several such lists by ‘Fortune’ Magazine, ‘The Wall Street Journal’, ‘Time’ Magazine, ‘Business Week’, ‘The Jerusalem Post’, and more.
In June 2012, she became the first woman to serve on Facebook’s board of directors. In 2013, her book ‘Lean In’ was shortlisted for the ‘Financial Times’ and Goldman Sachs ‘Business Book of the Year Award’.

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North Miami Beach High School
Harvard University (BA, MBA)

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Sheryl Sandberg’s first job was as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company, which she did for about a year in 1995-1996. For the next five years, she assisted Larry Summers, who at the time was the United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Bill Clinton.
She left the job after the Republicans came into power in November 2000, and moving to Silicon Valley, joined Google Inc. From November 2001 to March 2008, she served as Google’s Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations, supervising sales of its advertising and publishing products, consumer products and Google Book Search.
In late 2007, Sandberg, who was eager to take more responsibility, had expressed her willingness to take charge of the troubled Washington Post Company as a senior executive to its CEO Donald Graham. That December, at a Christmas party hosted by Dan Rosensweig, she met Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of Facebook, and had an hour-long discussion after he introduced himself.
In the following months, she had several private meetings with Zuckerberg to talk about how to make Facebook profitable, following which, Zuckerberg offered her the role of the chief operating officer (COO). Finding that social networking had better prospects than newspapers, she decided against Donald Graham’s offer and also rejected Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s offer to make her the chief financial officer.
Sandberg, who wanted a more challenging role, failed to get the responsibility of the COO at Google as the company already had Schmidt and the two founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, making major decisions. In February 2008, she finally decided to accept Zuckerberg’s offer and left Google despite attempts to convince her to stay.
Soon after joining Facebook in March 2008, she talked to its hundreds of employees to build a personal relationship with them which Zuckerberg had failed to achieve. Within two years, she also achieved her goal to make Facebook a profitable company by introducing “ads discreetly presented”.
In 2012, she was inducted into Facebook’s board of directors as the first female (eighth overall) member. She was previously named into the boards of The Walt Disney Company and Starbucks in 2009, and also serves on the boards of Women for Women International, the Center for Global Development and V-Day.

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Other names

Sheryl Kara Sandberg

Born in

Washington, D.C., United States

Nationality

American

Father

Joel Sandberg

Mother

Adele Sandberg

Children

2 (with Goldberg)

Net worth

US$1.65 billion (July 2017)

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Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.
It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.
Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.
The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.
The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

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