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Facebook may have begun as just a social networking platform, but over the course of Sheryl Sandberg’s tenure, it has become much more than that.
As chief operating officer of Meta, Facebook’s parent company since 2008, Sandberg has played a huge role in the social network leader’s growth and the dominant global position that it enjoys today. The company grew from just 500 to almost 78,000 employees, and from 100 million users to three billion by the end of 2021.
The former Google executive who helped optimize ad revenues for the world’s most powerful search engine had a similar impact on Facebook’s fortunes. In 2007, the year before Sandberg joined the company, its total revenue was just over $150 million. In 2022, the social network giant’s revenues were around $117 billion….