Facebook Part 1: Sheryl Sandberg & The Curse of the BOB
Corporate Gossip
Becca Platsky
4.9 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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If Sheryl Sandberg & Mark Zuckerberg never encountered one another at a Christmas party in Atherton in 2007 would the world have been a better place? Find out as we go ALLL the way back and trace the story of Sheryl Sandberg's Dr. Frankenstein and her Mark Zuckerberg monster.
Was there sexual tension between the two of them (no one explicitly has said that but I PICKED UP ON A FEW THINGS!)??. Were either of them good people who were corrupted? Or were they destined to seek power and destroy once they reached the top? What about now? Do they feel ashamed about the lives they've destroyed, directly or indirectly? Do they hate themselves more than we could ever hate them? Are there ANY heroes in this story at all? What do you think?!
Links:
Why Sheryl Sandberg Quit Facebook's Meta
"When You Get That Wealthy, You Start to Buy Your Own Bullshit": The Miseducation of Sheryl Sandberg
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| 0:00.0 | Mark! Cheryl! What? What is it, honey? Oh, Mark, I had the most horrible dream. I was working for you at the Facebook, and everybody hated me. It was all over the news. They said it was a PowerPoint pied piper in prodig boots. |
| 0:22.8 | And Michelle Obama hated me because I had lied under oath. And people were saying that I harassed employees. |
| 0:28.1 | Oh, God, the worst part was my hair cut. It was so harsh. I looked like the mama and Bob's burgers. |
| 0:35.4 | The Facebook. Oh, I haven't thought about that in a while. |
| 0:40.2 | Do you ever wish you kept working on it? |
| 0:42.9 | Sometimes. |
| 0:44.0 | Sometimes I think if we had met earlier, we couldn't work together on it. |
| 0:48.6 | With your brains, maybe we could have made it out of the garage. |
| 0:52.5 | You know, if my brainus hadn't broken down, |
| 0:55.0 | maybe we would have met at that Christmas party in Atherton. |
| 0:58.0 | Oh, honey, I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. |
| 1:02.0 | Facebook? |
| 1:04.0 | Geez, imagine if I was still working on an idea I had when I was 19. |
| 1:09.0 | You know, it's funny, I had a crazy dream last night, too. |
| 1:12.6 | I was an M.M.A. fighter. |
| 1:13.6 | I was wearing this gold necklace. |
| 1:16.6 | I look like a total tool. |
| 1:18.6 | Honey, if you ever wear a gold necklace, I'll slap you myself. |
| 1:23.6 | I wouldn't like that. |
| 1:25.6 | Gross. |
| 1:26.6 | I'm gonna try to go back to sleep. |
| 1:28.3 | You can turn back on the news if you want. |
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