フェースブックのベンジャミン・リンとシェリル・サンドバーグをめぐる込み合った話

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「オール・シングズ・デジタル」のカラ・スウィッシャ記者がフェースブック内情を詳しくまとめている。
かなり長い記事で読み進めるのが困難なので、要点と思われるものを引き出しておこう。
主要人物は以下のとおり。

  • シェリル・サンドバーグ(COO、グーグルから来た)
  • ベンジャミン・リン(グーグルから来たが、グーグルに戻るために辞職)
  • マット・カーラ(VP、辞職)
  • エリオット・シュレージ(VP、グーグルから来た)
  • ジョナサン・ハイリガー(VP)
  • チャマス・パリハピチャ(リンの直属上司)

Here’s what I found out, after spending the weekend talking to as many people with knowledge of the situation as possible, in a very long report:

To begin, as someone who has been consistently tough on the company for its insane valuation, criticized its sometimes ham-handed management and pressed it to show the true path to sustainable monetization, I think I cannot be considered a cheerleader for Facebook or for its shifting management.

But it is safe to say Ling was not happy with Facebook and Facebook was not happy with Ling.

When Schrage was put in charge of platform marketing (and not in charge of the platform itself, as many have misconstrued, since he is decidedly nontechnical), the controversial move caused more problems and threw Ling’s status into even more confusion.

Obviously, given that the original story had been all about talent leaving Google to come to Facebook, the opposite was a much less palatable plot.

Still, this kind of request to refrain from going right to work for a competitor in exchange for shares is not untypical, and companies almost always ask for strict nondisparagement clauses.

But in the hothouse blogging environment of today, of course, to ask for help stopping such news from leaking is like asking to hold back the ocean waves. External optics on Ling’s departure clearly became too much of a focus of Sandberg, Schrage and others.