Vulnerability Lessons with Facebook's Carolyn Everson

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Facebook's Carolyn Everson helped launch one of the most iconic startups of the Web 1.0 era: Pets.com. But before it even took off, and long before its catastrophic failure, she was fired. It was a shameful secret she kept for years. This episode, hear Carolyn's lessons on why leading with vulnerability takes courage. Featuring reporting from Caroline Fairchild.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Meida Malik. We are the co-host of the Brown Table Talk
0:06.8	podcast where we discuss how to help women of color thrive in their
0:12.3	workplaces.
0:13.7	And we invite allies to join us to help women of color win at work.
0:18.5	We have a seat waiting for you.
0:20.3	Subscribe to Brown Table Talk wherever you enjoy podcasts.
0:24.0	From the editorial team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemple, and this is Hello Monday,
0:32.0	A show where I investigate the changing nature
0:34.6	of work and how that work is changing us.
0:39.0	Everything shifted for Carolyn Eversin a few years ago in a moment she didn't see coming.
0:44.0	Carolyn's got a big job.
0:45.4	She's in charge of the global business group at Facebook, which means she runs a big part of
0:49.6	Facebook's revenue.
0:51.3	And she was getting ready to speak at a leadership event for the women in her
0:54.2	company. Now it should have been a slam dunk, a friendly audience, yet standing
0:58.9	there in the stage wings she seemed so not confident.
1:03.0	Cheryl Sandberg was there with her and asked her about it.
1:06.0	And I literally blurred out.
1:08.0	I was fired from pets.com in 1999 and it was my own company.
1:12.0	People get fired from other companies but I got fired from my own company. People get fired from other companies, but I got fired from my own company.
1:15.0	We all have things we don't put on our resume.
1:18.0	Things we're afraid other people may eventually find out about.
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