Sheryl Sandberg Passed on Chance to Be CEO of LinkedIn

A couple years before Sheryl Sandberg joined Facebook as the company's second-in-command, she passed up the opportunity to run another major social network: LinkedIn.

In the summer of 2006, while Sandberg was working as an exec at Google, LinkedIn's founder Reid Hoffman reached out to her about the possibility of taking over as the company's CEO. "I thought it was a great opportunity, and after five years in the same position at Google I was ready for a new challenge," Sandberg writes in Lean In, her first book set to be released next month, according to an excerpt in The Wall Street Journal.

Ultimately, though, Sandberg decided to turn down the offer to focus on her family. "The timi…
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