Facebook's Sandberg: Learning from mistakes prepared us to deal with the coronavirus
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg on Wednesday said the company's lessons learned from its numerous mistakes over the past couple of years prepared it to deal with the crises caused by the coronavirus pandemic.Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook speaks onstage during 'Putting a Best Facebook Forward' at Vanity Fair's 6th Annual New Establishment Summit at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on October 22, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal was a particular black eye for the company, made worse by the fact that Sandberg and CEO Mark Zuckerberg waited in silence for five days before publicly addressing the situation. "We have felt very much under siege, not quite at this level, but knowing that we had a lot to chew very quickly for the last couple of years," Sandberg said. And again, I think the pace at which we've been working is serving us well during this period."to address the coronavirus pandemic.
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