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Sheryl Sandberg

Former chief operating officer of Meta, founder of the Lean In nonprofit, and a board member and investor in technology and AI companies.

Current stories

investConfirmed6 publishers

Nscale seeks a $35bn listing with cost of revenue running $49m above revenue

The AI data centre company wants $35 billion from public markets on a first half where direct costs exceeded revenue, a $1 billion net loss and a contracted-demand total of $103.4 billion. Underwriters have yet to set a range.

Perspective Coverage

7 publishers
Builder
Builder 12%
Operator
Operator 22%
Investor
Investor 66%

Reality

Evidence76
Adoption22
Hype gap+34
Incentives72
Confidence74
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Lean In's own survey splits the promotion gap between the manager and the home

Sheryl Sandberg says women with equal career motivation are opting out for lack of sponsorship and support, and the 2025 Lean In data hands managers only the part of that problem they can fix themselves.

Reality

Evidence46
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+22
Incentives72
Confidence58
investOne report1 publisher

Nscale's last round priced $14.6bn before half of its $103bn backlog existed

Nscale added OpenAI's Fidji Simo to a board that already seats Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg while it raises up to $3.5bn ahead of a September IPO, about $2bn of that coming from its GPU supplier Nvidia.

Reality

Evidence22
Adoption45
Hype gap+30
Incentives78
Confidence30
investOne report1 publisher

Furo's $4m works out to about $667 for each of the 6,000 sites already running its software

TQ Ventures and Sheryl Sandberg's family office put $4m behind a Munich battery-software spin-off whose 800 customers average 7.5 sites each, and how much of that footprint trades live is not broken out.

Reality

Evidence32
Adoption48
Hype gap+30
Incentives72
Confidence44