Facebook Hires Google Exec As COO

Wall Street Journal:

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Inc.'s 23-year-old chief executive, is finding that he and his company have to grow up at Internet speed. The latest sign: He has poached a top Google Inc. executive, Sheryl Sandberg, to help expand his social-networking company.

Ms. Sandberg, a six-year Google veteran who has been the search giant's vice president of global online sales and operations, will become Facebook's chief operating officer. In that role, the 38-year-old executive will try to help expand the privately held company's operations, revenue and international reach. She will also lead sales, business development, public policy and communication. Ms. Sandberg will report directly to Mr. Zuckerberg, who has been searching for a second-in-command for several months.

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Comments

[Rule Of Law]

Mark Zuckerberg had better see the writing in the wall and grow up in a real world way--his site is a treasure trove of personal information that even the TelCo's can't provide. Bush, and every other fascist in the world lusts after this sort of useable Personal information, and his company could easily fall on "hard times" and become the victim of some regime friendly hostile buyout.

[PacificGatePost]

Perhaps the new Facebook CEO won't do what she did at Google...attract ads from companies selling such things as Russian women, like some of the ads we're subjected to on Huff Post. Where's the ability to draw the line? Is there a law that says once you enter the ranks of corporate management, all moral judgment evaporates for the "profit" motive? Sheeeshh.

http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/02/corporate-ethics.html

Let's demonstrate some confidence and leadership.