“[Eric Schmidt] explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job- fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them. Politics and stagnation set in, and everyone falters, He told me, "If you're offered a seat on a rocket sip, you don't ask what seat. You just get on.”

American technology executive, philanthropist and writer

Sheryl Kara Sandberg is an American technology executive, philanthropist, and writer. She was chief operating officer of Meta Platforms from 2008 to 2022, and she founded LeanIn.Org. Sandberg became widely known through her work at Meta, where she held one of the company’s top leadership roles for more than a decade. She is also associated with LeanIn.Org, the organization she created, and with writing and public speaking on leadership and work.