• BoomTown, Monday, March 10, 2008 11:17 AM

BoomTown's Kara Swisher talks to incoming Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, who just left her job as Google's vice president of global online sales and pperations. After coming back from maternity at the end of last year, Sandberg saw that David Fischer had been doing a great job managing the online sales team in her stead, prompting her decision. "I was seeking a new challenge either internally or externally after six years at Google building the online sales team," she said.

That was when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met Sandberg. "Philosophical discussions" soon gave way to dinners, which soon gave way to a job offer. Now, Sandberg's task as COO will be to scale Facebook's business internally, globally and financially. "Facebook has a huge and unique opportunity to expand and have even more influence, if it leverages its amazing product in the right way," Sandberg said.

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