Now that Sheryl Sandberg is gone from Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is the only top executive remaining from the company’s IPO a decade ago.
, Meta's chief growth officer, will assume the title of chief operating officer later this year, Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post that he doesn't plan to replace Sheryl's role and,"I'm not sure that would be possible since she's a superstar who defined the COO role in her own unique way."Fourteen years older than Zuckerberg, Sandberg brought to Facebook a hefty resume from her years atTreasury Department.
Sandberg had an undeniable impact on building Facebook's advertising business and its internal operations, including marketing and human resources. But the vision of the company has always been crafted by one person and one person only. For Zuckerberg, realizing that vision was a task for engineers. "We have a saying: 'Move fast and break things,'" Zuckerberg famously wrote in his letter to prospective shareholders in the IPO filing."The idea is that if you never break anything, you're probably not moving fast enough."
For Zuckerberg, moving fast meant serving as Facebook's singular head of business development for some of its most important decisions. He offered to buy Instagram shortly before the IPO
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