Goodbye, Meta
The opportunity to be part of Facebook’s transformation from a startup in Palo Alto to Meta, the trillion dollar company with apps and services used by over 3.5 billion people, has been the education and privilege of a lifetime. It’s included a view inside many of the defining businesses of our time, and the opportunity to solve business problems with people-centered creative and strategy.
I’ve built treasured relationships with brilliant partners from CMOs to garage coders, and have had the opportunity to partner with, coach, learn from, know, and be known by some of the most intelligent, impressive, passionate people from around the world over the span of 14+ years. Based only on the things my colleagues have said across years of performance cycles — hundreds of pages of feedback submitted by my peers, internal partners, direct managers, and reports — I asked AI for an artifact to summarize and commemorate my impact at the company. The output (shared below) is pretty fun, I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to my rich and rewarding career at so many versions of this metamorphic company.
There are so many people inside and outside of this company who deserve individual acknowledgement for their role in making this the career of my dreams, and there are also a handful of people coming to mind throughout the years to whom I owe repair. I’ll tend to this when I am in a better place with my health.
I’ve witnessed and experienced some of the most moving displays of allyship and advocacy at this company — for the most part, my Metamates have deep integrity, care, and are willing to speak truth to power. But from what I’ve personally experienced and observed, even at a company like Meta, it eventually becomes extremely difficult for women to sustain careers, particularly in roles where our job requires us to tell powerful men news they might not want to hear.
The process begins with the… acceptance that… [Americans] without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist, and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization. - Bell Hooks
The work is only just beginning.
I say goodbye with mixed emotions, and the strongest one is gratitude. 🫶🏼
