High-powered women who have left tech show how limiting that label can be - casting women as incomplete leaders without the vision to take the top job, says Bloomberg Opinion's Beth Kowitt.
was the rise of the start-up founder-as-God mindset in the 2000s. The ethos was perpetuated by Andreessen Horowitz, whose venture capital firm grew its reputation and business on the belief that founders must remain CEO to uphold a company’s mission. But that often meant bringing in a seasoned executive who could fill in all the gaps where the inexperienced founder was lacking - in other words, a Sheryl Sandberg.
No one seems to talk about those options for her anymore. It’s still possible she’ll pop up as CEO of a Fortune 500 company. But it’s just as likely she’s been too tainted by the Meta scandals that, yes, in many cases she did help create, but was primarily responsible for cleaning up.
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