Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, runs the company that turned friend into a verb
By the time Sandberg left Google, there were no more doubts about that company’s ability to turn Web traffic into cash. The achievement was so emphatic that Sandberg and her colleagues used to worry about the other extreme, which they called “success disaster,” a fairly common fate among tech start-ups. “You can’t underestimate the intensity and complexity of being a leader in an organization that’s undergoing hypergrowth,” says Adam Freed, Google’s former director of product management and one of Sandberg’s friends from her Harvard days. “Sheryl had to make decisions very quickly based on reasonable but imperfect data. The annals of business history, especially in Silicon Valley, are littered with the wreckage of companies that started to experience hypergrowth and mismanaged it. But Sheryl was able to see way down the highway, very quickly, to judge what the outcomes of her decisions would be.”
via vogue.com
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