A Woman’s Place

This is an in depth article in the New Yoker that provides a detail background of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.  The piece by Ken Auletta, also gives insight into the courtship of Sandberg by Mark Zuckerberg to get her to come to Facebook.

“It was like dating,” says Dave Goldberg, Sandberg’s husband and the C.E.O. of the online company SurveyMonkey. Sandberg says they asked each other, “What do you believe? What do you care about? What’s the mission? It was very philosophical.”

“There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization,” Zuckerberg says. “And then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.”


Complete article here