31 Facts About Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Kara Sandberg was born on August 28,1969 and is an American technology executive, philanthropist, and writer.

On Forbes Magazine's 2021 billionaires list, Sheryl Sandberg is reported to have a net worth of US$1.7 billion, due to her stock holdings in Facebook and in other companies.

Sheryl Sandberg was born in 1969 in Washington, DC, to a Jewish family, the daughter of Adele and Joel Sheryl Sandberg, and the oldest of three children.

Sheryl Sandberg's father is an ophthalmologist, and her mother was a college teacher of French language.

Sheryl Sandberg's family moved to North Miami Beach, Florida, when she was two years old.

Sheryl Sandberg attended North Miami Beach High School, from which she graduated in 1987 ranked ninth in her class.

Sheryl Sandberg was sophomore class president, became a member of the National Honor Society, and was on the senior class executive board.

Sheryl Sandberg taught aerobics in the 1980s while in high school.

Sheryl Sandberg met Professor Lawrence Summers, who became her mentor and thesis adviser.

Sheryl Sandberg assisted in the Treasury's work on forgiving debt in the developing world during the Asian financial crisis.

Sheryl Sandberg later joined Google in 2001, where she was responsible for online sales of Google's advertising and publishing products as well as for sales operations of Google's consumer products and Google Book Search.

On November 29,2018, The New York Times reported that Sheryl Sandberg had personally asked Facebook's communications staff to conduct research into George Soros's finances days after Soros publicly criticized tech companies, including Facebook, at the World Economic Forum.

On June 1,2022, Sheryl Sandberg announced she would be leaving Meta as COO in the fall of 2022 but would remain on the board of directors.

In 2009, Sheryl Sandberg was named to the board of The Walt Disney Company.

Sheryl Sandberg serves on the boards of Women for Women International, the Center for Global Development, and V-Day.

Sheryl Sandberg was previously a board member of Starbucks, Brookings Institution, and Ad Council.

In 2008, Sheryl Sandberg wrote an article for The Huffington Post in support of her mentor, Larry Summers, who was under fire for his comments about women.

Sheryl Sandberg was a keynote speaker at the Jewish Community Federation's Business Leadership Council in 2010.

Sheryl Sandberg spoke as the keynote speaker at the Class Day ceremony at the Harvard Business School in May 2012.

Sheryl Sandberg released her first book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, co-authored by Nell Scovell and published by Knopf on March 11,2013.

Sheryl Sandberg argues that in order for change to happen women need to break down these societal and personal barriers by striving for and achieving leadership roles.

Criticism of the book includes claims that Sheryl Sandberg is "too elitist" and another that she is "tone-deaf" to the struggles faced by the average woman in the workplace.

Sheryl Sandberg released her second book, Option B, in April 2017.

Org and a new organization around her book Option B Sandberg transferred roughly $100,000,000 in Facebook stock to fund the foundation and other charitable endeavors.

Sheryl Sandberg married Brian Kraff in 1993 and divorced a year later.

Sheryl Sandberg raised the issue of single parenting conflicting strongly with professional and economic development in America.

However, an autopsy later suggested that the cause of death was an arrhythmia, as Sheryl Sandberg subsequently confirmed in an interview.

Sheryl Sandberg dated Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick from 2016 to 2019.

The Journal stated that Facebook was reviewing whether Sheryl Sandberg violated the company's rules.

Bernthal has three children and Sheryl Sandberg has two, and they live together in Menlo Park, California.

Sheryl Sandberg declined to endorse Elizabeth Warren, an outspoken critic of Facebook, multiple times throughout the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, though stated, "I imagine I will support a Democratic nominee" over incumbent Donald Trump.