Hello!

Welcome to the platy-jubes episode of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance and Jubes news of the week. I'm Felix

Hamlet of Axios. Emily Peck of Axios is also here. Hello. Elizabeth Spires is here. Hello.

Hello. Hello. We're enjoying this because we literally, we can all touch each other. It's,

it's kind of amazing. We are in a small but beautiful recording studio in Brooklyn, and it feels good for us to be together. If we sound particularly good, that's all thanks to CPLA and Armada. We are going to talk about platy jubes. It's going to be fun, but we are also going to talk about food shortages. We are going to talk about Cheryl Sandberg. We're going to have a Slate Plus about CPI. It's all coming up. And if you don't know what a Plattie Jub is, I promise we will tell you on Slate Money. All right. Obviously, the only thing I want to talk about is Plattie Jubes. We will get to the Pl platyjubes, but I suppose we should cover the news first, which is Cheryl Sandberg is leaning out.

That is correct.

The chief operating officer of, I feel like you'll hate this, of meta.

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Which used to be Facebook and still is.

We will refer to it from hereetofore as Facebook on this episode.

Shall we agree?

Yes.

Yes.

Announced earlier this week that she was leaving Facebook.

Oh, damn it.

Well, she's leaving meta.

I think that's part of the thing, right?

That she was not really involved in the pivot to the metaverse.

She felt excluded from all of that, from what I can tell from the reporting.

And she's like, you know, if you guys are going in this completely other direction that I'm not involved in and I'm already a billionaire, why should they stick around?

Yeah.

And there was a very juicy kind of report in the Wall Street Journal on Friday morning about, you know, she's feeling

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