IN THE WORLD OF Self-Made, hoodie-wearing technology billionaires, Sheryl Sandberg has pulled off something improbable: She has joined their ranks without founding her own company or writing a single line of code.
The fact that Facebook’s chief operating officer is a woman is incidental, of course, but it’s also noteworthy: Of the 268 newcomers to the 2014 FORBES Billionaires list, 42 are women–a single-year record and, more notably, the highest-ever percentage of newcomers (and of women billionaires overall–172 out of 1,645 ).
That’s progress. But only a bit. Only 32 billionaire women–or 1.9% of all the globe’s billionaires–had a meaningful hand in building their own fortunes, as opposed to inheriting one from a parent or husband. Sandberg joins the dozen women, including Spanx’s Sara Blakely, fashion designer Tory Burch and Oprah Winfrey, who accomplished this feat without the help of a husband or sibling. And only she andMeg Whitman, who worked at Hasbro and FTD before joining eBay, accomplished this feat as hired hands of tech companies.
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Common sense is indeed not common.
Posted: at 11-03-2014 07:28 AM (10 years ago) | Hero
i only respect the nigeria woman who is elf made not the other ones who inherited their own,most nigeria women politicians are reacher than this ones but they are scared to flaunt the wealth because politics is involved,e.g ngozi oknjo iweala e.t.c
Posted: at 11-03-2014 09:50 AM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero
ksurrina at 12-03-2014 02:42 AM (10 years ago) (f)
Tell them to come let you to know HOW MUCH SIBLINGS blood were shed for this MONEY to start accumulating and how many STRANGERS blood were shed to maintain. Those who are millionaires and billionaires within the world are MURDERERS. Hugs
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