"Having built an impressive resume at Google and charming the then 23-year old Mark Zuckerberg into making her COO, Sandberg took control of the monetization strategy at Facebook"

Mincing words over what this man did is cowardice. Patrick Dobson is a piece of shit. He slandered a successful person to make a name for himself by implying a woman didn't earn her job but instead charmed her way into it. All to further his own name. He isn't clever, or risk-taking, or gaming the system.

He's simply a piece of shit. A terrible person. His apology is trying to cover up the fact that he did something completely unprofessional and immoral and passed it off like a traffic generation strategy.

If you see his apology and think "Oh, well I'm glad he apologized" you're only encouraging disgusting behaviour.

And that doesn't even get into the fact that he's either incompetent or a liar or both.

"Well, I wanted to be a part of a big conversation, so I wrote an inflammatory blog piece last week to see if I could elbow my way into it. And I was successful at that."

So Youngstown. (I grew up there)

I saw the original post, and it was clearly written with emotion and without understanding of their business strategy (which can be questioned, but firing Sheryl is really a silly idea). Glad the OP recognized that. Let's move on.

Nice to see a blogger 'fess up to cynical link baiting.

From one of Patrick Dobson's recent tweets:

"Gotta love @ericries on Twitter these days. Shameless self promoter? Check. Shill for Obama? Check. Startup insight? Negative. Unfollowed."

Something very similar could be said for you, padobson.