Shirley_Sandberg

Shirley Sandberg: The Worthy Queen of Silicon Valley

雪莉·桑德伯格：当之无愧的硅谷女王

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杨 琴

雪莉·桑德伯格在2016年伯克利大学演讲道：“生活中总会碰到很多难处

的事情，有时错失机会。工作不合适、遭遇疾病或事故，因而一切瞬间改变。

有时尊严尽失，刻薄的偏见常常刺痛人心。有时缘尽人散，亲密关系一旦破碎

就难重圆。人生不仅要面临生活，还要面临死别。”雪莉的人生历经坎坷，但

她用一次次行动证明：即便悲伤或空虚，或是面对巨大挑战，你仍然可以选择

快乐和有意义的生活。

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Shirley Sandberg, now Facebook’s chief operating officer, is known by the media as

“Facebook’s first lady”, and is the first female member of Facebook’s board. She is No.

5 on the 2011 Forbes list of powerful women, one of the top 50 “most powerful” business

women elites on the Forbes list. In 2013, she appeared on the cover of Time magazine and

was rated as one of the most influential people in the world by Time magazine.

As a successful woman with countless great

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halos and labels, what behind her is a

journey of great

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frustration and inspiration.

Shirley Sandberg, was born in 1969 in a Jewish family in Washington, D.C., a typical

middle-class family. Her father, Joel, is an

ophthalmologist, and her mother, Adele,

teaches French at a college. Her parents are both senior

4)

intellectuals. They

5)

instilled their

traditional educational ideas from childhood. They not only pay attention to her academic

achievements, but also hope that she can fulfill her life-long task and be a good wife and

good mother.

In 1987, Shirley was admitted to Harvard University. In Harvard, where there are so

many talented people, she still graduated from Harvard economics department as the first

prize and top student. After graduation, she settled down in Washington, and soon met a

suitable marriage partner, a Washington businessman. Like completing a historical mission,

she got the

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certificate without

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hesitation.

But because of her husband’s incomprehension of her career, they divorced after only

one year together. After her marriage failed, she put all her heart into her work.

One year after the divorce, Sherry was invited to serve as the chief of staff for her

mentor

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Summers, who became Vice Treasury Secretary of the

then US President Bill Clinton’s administration. At this

time, Shirley was only 29 years old and had already

made her mark in the political circle of Washington.

She showed a strong social and political mind.

A few years later, she chose to resign and decided to “abandon politics and go into

business”, when she was 32 years old.

However, the technology companies at that time did not think highly of the “female

civil servant” who switched to a new profession. After nearly a year, she entered Google, a

small company that was only established for three years at that time. Over the next seven

years, under her leadership, Google became the world’s largest search engine.

She then chose Zuckerberg’s Facebook, when he was only 23 years old, in the face of

the

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olive branch thrown by many start-ups in Silicon Valley. Since she joined, Facebook

has grown at an incredible speed, and the company has increased 66 times in eight years!

Ten years after the divorce, she met her second husband. His name is Dave, a Yahoo

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chief operating officer

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pay attention to

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定居

ups and downs

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executive, and Dave particularly agrees with Sherry’s career ambitions. At that time,

Shirley was proud of her career, and her husband unconditionally supported her work,

which was the happiest time. However, God once again became harsh on the hard-working

woman. On a vacation, Dave fell down in the gym and accidentally hit his head. He lost too

much blood and died.

After a failed marriage and losing a lifelong love, her fate seems to make her life full

of ups and downs, but Sheryl did not compromise. She proved herself again and again

with her actions. As she once said in her speech at the graduation ceremony of Tsinghua

University, “fate favors the brave.” She has been fighting against the fate with her own

courage and strength. She is worthy of the courage.

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1. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

在未来，将没有女性领导人,只会有领导人。

2. Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.

财富青睐大胆的人，如果你不试一试你永远不会知道你的能力。

——雪莉·桑德伯格（

Shirley Sandberg

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雪莉·桑德伯格，现任脸书首席运营官，被媒体称为“脸书的第一夫人”，她也是第一

位进入脸书董事会的女性成员。她是2011福布斯权势女性榜排名第5位，福布斯榜上的前50

名“最有力量”的商业女精英之一。2013年她曾登上《时代周刊》杂志封面，并被杂志评为

全球最具影响力的人物之一。

作为一名拥有无数伟大光环和标签的成功女性，她背后却有一段无比坎坷与励志的旅程。

雪莉·桑德伯格，1969年出生于华盛顿的一个犹太家庭，她家是典型的中产阶级家

庭——父亲乔尔是眼科医生，母亲阿黛尔在一所学院教授法语。父母都是高级知识分子，他

们对雪莉从小灌输传统教育观念，不仅注重她的学习成绩，同时希望她能尽早完成终身大

事，做一个贤妻良母。

1987年，雪莉被哈佛大学录取，在人才济济的哈佛，她仍旧不负众望以第一名的成绩和

顶级优等生的身份从哈佛经济系毕业。毕业后的她在华盛顿定居，很快就遇到了一个“适婚

对象”——一位华盛顿商人。像完成历史使命一样，她毫不犹豫就领了证。

但由于丈夫对她事业的不理解，才相处一年两人就离婚了。婚姻失败后，她把全部的心

思都放在工作中。

离婚后的一年，雪莉受邀担任导师萨默斯的办公室主任，萨默斯时任美国总统比尔·克

林顿政府的财政部副部长。此时雪莉年仅29岁，已经在华盛顿政治圈崭露头角，她展现出了

强大的社交和政治头脑。

几年后她选择辞职，毅然决定“弃政从商”，那年她已经32岁。

然而当时的科技公司并不看好这位半路出家的“女公务

员”，花了近一年的时间，她进入了谷歌,这个当时仅成立3年的

小公司。接下来的7年时间里，在她的带领下，谷歌一跃成为全世

界最大的搜索引擎。

之后面对硅谷的众多初创公司抛来的橄榄枝，她选择了当时

只有23岁的扎克伯格的脸书。自她加入后，脸书以难以置信的速

度飞快壮大，8年公司业绩翻了66倍！

在离婚的十年后，她遇见了她的第二任丈夫。他叫戴夫，

雅虎高管，戴夫特别认同雪莉事业上的野心。那时的雪莉事业

得意，丈夫无条件支持自己的工作，正是最幸福之时。然而，

上帝对这位努力的女强人又一次变得苛刻。在一次度假时，戴

夫在健身房意外摔倒不慎撞到头部，因失血过多而去世。

经历了一次失败的婚姻，也失去了一位一生的挚爱，命运

似乎有意让她的人生充满坎坷，但雪莉并没有妥协，她用行动

一次次证明了自己。正如她曾在清华大学毕业典礼上演讲说的

那句“命运偏爱勇者”，她一直用自己的勇气和力量与命运斗

争，她是当之无愧的勇者。

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