• Sheryl Sandberg will leave Meta Platforms as COO following 14 years
• organization’s second-most noteworthy leader,
• she helped incorporate Facebook into the online entertainment behemoth it is today.

Sandberg will venture down as the organization’s No. 2 forerunner in the fall immediate reports with pioneer and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

More recently, Zuckerberg renamed the firm Meta and is spending extensively in expanding the company’s social technologies beyond 2D to include virtual and augmented reality in the metaverse. Sandberg joined the firm in 2008 as a 23-year-old to assist Zuckerberg in navigating the route to an IPO and building an ad business, which she has headed ever since.

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She’d spent the previous six years at Google, where she helped build up the company’s online sales channels for AdWords and AdSense. Meta’s ad business has been under attack from all sides in recent years, as Apple and regulators cut down on Facebook’s ability to target advertisements, resulting to a steep drop in revenue growth and Meta’s stock price.

According to many people who have worked with Sandberg, her exit has been a long time coming. Drew Pusateri, a newly departed member of Meta’s communications department, said in a tweet Wednesday that her departure “will be an incredibly non-shocking departure to basically everyone inside the company.”