The appearance was brief, agreed upon, and nonetheless fascinating. In a small fifteen-minute speech, Sheryl Sandberg on Tuesday offered a concentrate of the spirit of Silicon Valley, a mixture of messianism and power, of faith in the benefits of the business and of technological progress, all in a language of wood is second to none. The operations manager of Facebook, right arm of the founder, Mark Zuckerberg, was on a visit to Paris to announce investments of the social network in France. The company will create a support programme for start-up lights, focused on the processing of personal data, within the “Station ” F”, the future giant incubator of the capital. Funded by Xavier Niel, the boss of Free, to the tune of 250 million euros , and located in the former halle Freyssinet, the building will open in April.
Lucky
Since the huge hall is still in the works, Sandberg said that Facebook had become associated with Sciences-Po to start an “incubator of public policies”, aimed at the creation of small boxes “in the service of the general interest.”
On the european tour, the leader of california was to hold a press conference to detail these commitments. But the journalists invited to the morning did not have the opportunity to ask him a single question. Officially due to lack of time : the problem when you are one of the masters of the digital world, it is that your agenda is always too tight. It has therefore been necessary to simply listen to his speech, full of certainties and bright smiles, and be so lucky to attend. Yes, of course, has hammered Sandberg as a highlight, the technology has the power to “make the world a better place” or – depending on the moments of “make people’s lives better”. There is the goal and the “responsibility” Facebook, “connecting us to each other,” comes to the aid of entrepreneurs “who are the engines of the current economy”, and promoting the “collaboration” between all. From his point of view, all this is for our good and cannot discuss.
Sheryl Sandberg, 47 years old, is not anyone. Number 2 of Facebook since 2008, this specialist of the pub, formed by Google, has made social network created by a post-teen immature a multinational ultra-profitable, which now has 1.8 billion users and generates more than 2 billion dollars of net income per quarter. When Donald Trump received a month ago the bosses-the oligarchs of Silicon Valley, it is she who represented Facebook, sitting alongside Tim Cook (Apple), Larry Page (Google), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), and Elon Musk (Tesla). Figure of feminism since she published the manifesto Lean In (“all”) in 2013, it is one of the personalities – and not only one of the women, as it often has – the most powerful in the world. Billionaire, she was approached to be the secretary of the Treasury of Hillary Clinton, that it has supported. For a long time, Silicon Valley expects to see this graduate of economics of Harvard university, who began his career at the world B ank, launching her political side democrat. Or imagine the first president of the United States.
Direction of the hair
to tell you the truth, Sandberg is already in the head of State and has the know-how in the field, are fully conversant with the codes and protocols of diplomatic communications. On Tuesday, she began her speech, incredibly accurate, making it a tribute to Paris, “city of lights” has unfortunately faced “the darkness” one evening in November 2015. Brushing them in the direction of the hair, the pride of her audience, she cited the example of the “resilience” of the French capital, whispered that she had enjoyed the night before “the best dinner of [his] life” in one of his restaurants, celebrated the quality of national research and says his “admiration” before this “special” project that is the Station F.
With Sandberg, there’s something for everyone, including Anne Hidalgo, the tribune, the leader of Facebook has admitted to being a “big fan”. also, in an unusual reversal of the logical republican, it is Sheryl Sandberg, who gave the floor to the mayor of Paris, yet at home. Question of hierarchy and power, no doubt.
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