Forbes.com Removes Post Comparing Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg To Kim Polese
A recent post on Forbes.com caused quite the riot. It first referred to Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg (aka right-hand woman to Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg) as Silicon Valley’s new It girl. That was one thing, and a fine thing. But when the article went beyond, comparing Sandberg to Kim Polese, former CEO and co-founder of now-defunct software company Marimba, that was quite another.
A recent post on Forbes.com caused quite the riot. It first referred to Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg (aka right-hand woman to Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg) as Silicon Valley’s new It girl. That was one thing, and a fine thing. But when the article went beyond, comparing Sandberg to Kim Polese, former CEO and co-founder of now-defunct software company Marimba, that was quite another.
Feathers they did ruffle — namely, those of Polese herself.
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