Sheryl Sandberg, Who Helped to Turn Facebook Into Digital Advertising Empire, to Leave Company Board

Published on January 19, 2024

Sheryl Sandberg, who helped to transform Facebook from a tech startup into a digital advertising empire, will step down from the board of Meta, Facebook’s parent company. “With a heart filled with gratitude and a mind filled with memories, I let the Meta board know that I will not stand for reelection this May,” Ms. Sandberg wrote in a Facebook post. Ms. Sandberg left Google to join Facebook in 2008, four years before the company went public. As the No. 2 executive at Meta under CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Ms. Sandberg also took a lot of heat for some of its biggest missteps....

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