"it is the end of an era“, said the founder of the company, stressing that in 2008, when he hired Sheryl Sandberg, he was only 23 years old and knew nothing about business management.
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She was 38 years old and had a career in prestigious institutions such as the World Bank and the McKinsey group of consultants. It also passed through the Treasury Department and Google, from where it transitioned to Facebook.
Meta declared to AFP that Javi Olivan will be the new director of operations, but Mark Zuckerberg specified that he will not name a replacement for the position exactly as it is.
The group, based in California, has been the target of criticism from politicians and civil society for its economic model, based on large-scale targeted advertising and very greedy for personal data, which has raised controversy, especially since 2016.
After establishing itself as the main social network in the 2000s, Facebook expanded and acquired other services, such as Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus.
