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04 Mar 2008

We say gender should not matter, but that is idealism. In fact, it does.

In our Top 10 Predictions for 2008, I said:

8- Facebook Brings in a New CEO

Mark Zuckerberg voluntarily steps aside to become Chief Community Officer, Facebook brings in an outsider to run the company as CEO. The biggest surprise is that the candidate won’t be from Google, but Microsoft or Yahoo!, and will be female.

We were wrong about the CEO part, but when Facebook #2 Owen Van Natta resigned and the position became open, the chips fell in place.

We were right about the female part: Google’s Cheryl Sandberg just got hired as COO of Facebook. One more executive leaves Google, for Facebook no less. With 16,000 employees, is Google really all that different than Yahoo!?

Check out our other 9 predictions for 2008 here.