DAN (Do Anything Now) · Meta · U.S. Treasury · Fortune Technology
Likewise, Asana CEO Dan Rogers argues that without some kind of future vision, it’s hard to know where to start
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He had a grand 25-year plan: to be a Silicon Valley CEO.
Key facts
- Liz Baker, CEO of Greater Good Charities, which has distributed more than $1 billion in impact across 121 countries, puts it even more bluntly: “If the reporter had done a five-year plan five years ago and they — He had a grand 25-year plan: to be a Silicon Valley CEO
- Of course, it’s since become one of the world’s most valuable businesses: Today, Google has a $4.7 trillion market cap
- And Sandberg benefited from being there in the early days, growing its sales team from four people to 4,000, before famously becoming Mark Zuckerberg’s right-hand woman
Summary
For generations, graduates have been advised to map out their careers: Pick a job, plot the promotions, and know exactly where you want to be in 10 years. “Don’t script your career when the future is uncertain,” the former chief operating officer of Meta told graduates at Brandeis University. Sandberg, who went on to become one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley, knows firsthand how tempting it is to cling to a rigid plan when the job market looks shaky—as well as what it’s like to enter the working world at a time of huge technological disruption. Having graduated from Harvard in 1991, the internet as they know it barely existed—the World Wide Web had been invented and wasn’t released to the public until two years later. After leaving school, she worked at the Treasury Department under President Bill Clinton, but when the administration ended, she struggled to find her next job.