Sheryl Sandberg: turning startups into giants Frequently we credit the entrepreneurs that founded successful startups with most or all of the success that those businesses enjoy. While that’s fair in some cases, this simplistic attitude often leaves us ignorant of the most important business people of our time. The perfect example of this is Sheryl Sandberg, who is arguably responsible for the staggering success of Facebook in the past decade.
“We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.”
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Over the course of her career, she was an instrumental player in the growth and success of Google, and later Facebook, before founding the Lean In Foundation, through which she facilitates the establishment of women in leadership roles. In that time, she has built up a net worth of $1.61 billion, and been named to the boards of Facebook, The Walt Disney Company, Women for Women International, Center for Global Development, V-Day, and Survey Monkey.