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Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

Facebook's Naomi Gleit: Reaching the Next Billion Users

Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

CNN

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6538 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

*BONUS* Naomi Gleit, VP of Social Good at Facebook, is the third longest serving Facebook employee, and is tasked with the goal of helping the social giant reach its next billion users. She opens up about working with CEO Mark Zuckerberg, how she defied her parents who wanted her to become an investment banker, the challenges for women in Silicon Valley today and why Sheryl Sandberg is her hero. Produced by Haley Draznin, CNN.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

In this episode of Boss Files, I started when I was 22 years old, and back then, Facebook was just a college site.

0:08.7

There was one million students using Facebook, and now we've grown to a global community of over 2 billion people.

0:15.2

Facebook's Naomi Gleit. She heads social good at the company and is the third longest serving employee there.

0:21.7

She's been dubbed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the woman in charge of growing the Facebook community.

0:27.5

A senior woman in Silicon Valley, she calls this a watershed moment.

0:31.6

We need more women in power. We need parity and, you know, it would be awesome if women from the world.

0:39.2

Why she says Cheryl Sandberg is her hero,

0:42.1

plus her response to questions about Facebook's handling of the Russia-linked ads during the 2016 election.

0:48.8

I ask her if more regulation is needed.

0:51.5

Here's my conversation with Facebook's Naomi Glyte.

0:55.0

Naomi Glyte, thank you for being here. Thank you, Poppy, for having me as an honor.

0:58.0

Well, I've read so much about you, so I'm excited to hear this firsthand, your sort of

1:03.0

remarkable rise and journey at Facebook, because I think many people listening may not know your name yet,

1:10.0

but you were one of Facebook's first employees, employee

1:13.4

number 29, and the longest serving employee at Facebook today other than Mark Zuckerberg.

1:20.6

Wow. There is someone Matt Jacobson. He's the second longest serving. Okay. So you're a third.

1:27.6

All right.

1:27.9

He was a mentor to me.

1:28.9

You are a third.

1:29.9

What is that like when you look back today on what it was when you started?

1:35.7

I started when I was 22 years old.

1:39.5

And back then, Facebook was just a college site.

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