Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down after 14 years
by Richard Lawler from The Verge - All Posts on (#5ZWWR)
Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Sheryl Sandberg will step down as the COO of Meta Platforms after 14 years as its second-ranking executive, where she helped scale Facebook into the social media juggernaut it is today. Sandberg will leave her post as the company's No. 2 leader in the fall after spending the next few months working with founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to transition her direct reports. She will retain a seat on Meta's board.
Zuckerberg called the change an end of an era" and said that he doesn't plan to replace Sandberg's exact role in the company's structure. His current chief growth officer Javier Olivan, already one of the company's most powerful but lesser-known executives, will take over as COO in what Zuckerberg says is a more traditional" COO...