Nigeria’s 1st Lady Billionaire Listed Among 7 Female Global Billionaires
IN THE WORLD OF Self-Made,
hoodie-wearing technology billionaires, Sheryl Sandberg has pulled off
something improbable: She has joined their ranks without founding her
own company or writing a single line of code.
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The fact that Facebook’s chief operating officer is a woman is incidental, of course, but it’s also noteworthy: Of the 268 newcomers to the 2014 FORBES Billionaires list, 42 are women–a single-year record and, more notably, the highest-ever percentage of newcomers (and of women billionaires overall–172 out of 1,645 ).
That’s progress. But only a bit. Only 32 billionaire women–or 1.9% of all the globe’s billionaires–had a meaningful hand in building their own fortunes, as opposed to inheriting one from a parent or husband. Sandberg joins the dozen women, including Spanx’s Sara Blakely, fashion designer Tory Burch and Oprah Winfrey, who accomplished this feat without the help of a husband or sibling. And only she andMeg Whitman, who worked at Hasbro and FTD before joining eBay, accomplished this feat as hired hands of tech companies.
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The fact that Facebook’s chief operating officer is a woman is incidental, of course, but it’s also noteworthy: Of the 268 newcomers to the 2014 FORBES Billionaires list, 42 are women–a single-year record and, more notably, the highest-ever percentage of newcomers (and of women billionaires overall–172 out of 1,645 ).
That’s progress. But only a bit. Only 32 billionaire women–or 1.9% of all the globe’s billionaires–had a meaningful hand in building their own fortunes, as opposed to inheriting one from a parent or husband. Sandberg joins the dozen women, including Spanx’s Sara Blakely, fashion designer Tory Burch and Oprah Winfrey, who accomplished this feat without the help of a husband or sibling. And only she andMeg Whitman, who worked at Hasbro and FTD before joining eBay, accomplished this feat as hired hands of tech companies.
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