On the most recent episode of Fortune’s Leadership Next podcast, co-hosts Alan Murray and Michal Lev-Ram speak with Ancestry CEO Deb Liu. She is the creator, amongst other things, of the wildly popular Facebook Marketplace, but she says she originally never planned to work in tech or become a CEO. That, of course, has all changed. Her conversation with Murray and Lev-Ram covers the factors and relationships that led her to change her path, the lessons she learned at Facebook, and her plans for Ancestry, which she calls a “40-year-old startup.”
The trio also discuss Liu’s book, Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work. The book guides women on ways to get around workplace obstacles on the way to getting ahead. Liu credits Sheryl Sandberg, former COO of Meta and author of Lean In, for helping nudge her toward the career she has today. Does Liu think anything has changed for women in the workplace between the publication of Sandberg’s Lean In and her own book? It’s all in the podcast.
