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More on Sheryl Sandberg's entirely merit-based hire at Facebook

By Nicholas Carlson, 12:20 PM on Mon Mar 10 2008, 1,823 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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If Sheryl Sandberg weren't a Harvard grad twice over, we might have believed Facebook's new COO when she said Silicon Valley is a "meritocracy" and that people don't care who you know. Her claim is even more risible now that we learn Sandberg joined Facebook in large part because her brother-in-law is Elevation Partners cofounder Marc Bodnick, a private investor in Facebook.

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