Sheryl Sandberg, who left Google to become COO of Facebook, talks to Fortune about her rules for scaling an organization: "Think big. Hire big. Plan big…. Fast growth means you are always behind…. I always tried to help teams see what they would need before they needed it.”
Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, tells Fortune of Yahoo’s CEO: “If Marissa [Mayer] were at Google today, she would likely be in charge of one of the Alphabet companies,” … but he acknowledges that someone as ambitious as Mayer would want a bigger role.
Jess Lee, 32, who left Google in 2008 to join Polyvore and four years later ascended to CEO, tells Fortune: “Google is a great training ground for how to build an amazing culture and an amazing product. But Google is not that good at teaching you how to build a business.”
Francoise Casals Brougher, who left her vice president job at Google two
years ago to help Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey build Square: “Google
has always wanted to have a major impact on the world. Having us go to
other companies is an extension of that.”
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Fortune Exclusive: An In-Depth Interview with Apple’s SVP of Retail and Online Stores, Angela Ahrendts
On a visit to Apple’s Cupertino headquarters, Fortune spoke with Angela Ahrendts, the former CEO of Burberry, and her boss, CEO Tim Cook, about her role as senior vice president, retail and online stores, and their longer-term plans. Ahrendts reveals a lot about the company's evolving philosophy in her first in-depth interview at Apple.
Ahrendts tells Fortune that she believes the key to the company’s future is not just marvelous products, but also engaging and energizing its nearly 100,000 employees, 60% of whom now work in the $21.5 billion retail division, saying: "If you’re going to employ people anyway… why not make them the differentiator? They’re not a commodity…. Burberry was about building a relationship…. But it was always about selling an amazing product that you would have forever. Apple is just a deeper relationship with a much broader constituency. Because it’s everybody."
Ahrendts’ initial strategy for fitting in at Apple was to stay under the radar: "I didn’t dare say anything prior to six months…. My dad used to tell me, growing up [citing Abraham Lincoln], ‘It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and relieve them of all doubt.’ So I kept remembering that and chose not to over communicate."
Apple CEO Tim Cook tells Fortune: "It felt like she’d been
here a decade her first day…. I knew she was going to be off the charts,
but she’s even more off the charts than I thought. She came in so fast,
there was no [learning] curve. I’ve never met a single individual like
that before.”
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FORTUNE and Food & Wine Present the Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink 2015
Teaming up for the second year, Fortune and Food & Wine editors selected the 2015 winners, spotlighting the top entrepreneurs and idealists who are changing the world though meaningful work that touches the culinary field. The second annual list includes Lauren Bush Lauren, Carla Hall, WaterAid’s Sarina Prabashi, Jessica Alba and Barbara Frost and Jessamyn Rodriguez of Hot Bread Kitchen.
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For more Fortune MPW news, watch live interviews with Beth Comstock, Cathy Englebert and Diane Von Furstenberg this Friday, Sept. 11, on Fortune Live!, hosted by Leigh Gallagher. And subscribe to The Broadsheet, Fortune's daily newsletter: http://bit.ly/VVqrcH
The new issue of Fortune hits newsstands on Monday, September 14, 2015.
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