Sandberg Leaves Facebook: All You Need To Know.

After 14 years, Sheryl Sandberg is leaving Facebook. Are the rumours true of a breakdown between Zuckerberg and Sandberg? Or is it the pivot to the Metaverse with no role for Sandberg? Or, simply, it’s just that time? Here’s a collection of the best stories that the Internet is telling.

Sheryl Sandberg to Leave Facebook

Summary: Sheryl Sandberg has been the COO of Facebook for 14 years. More importantly, she was Mark Zuckerberg’s right hand and instrumental in monetising the world’s largest social network.

“People asked me all day yesterday, ‘Why now? Why now?’ Why now is because it’s time to write the next chapter of my life,” Sandberg told Facebook staff.

Facebook revenue was c$150 million in 2007, the year before Sandberg joined. Last year, it was $118 BILLION.

Sandberg’s tenure at Facebook is a tale of 2 halves. In the first half, Sandberg was instrumental in making Facebook a money-printing machine.

The second half is defined by 2 major events: in 2015 her husband passed away unexpectedly, followed a year later by Donald Trump becoming president, the Brexit referendum in the UK and the Cambridge Analytica…