My Insider"I think this is the quote I always heard, was Eric Schmidt to Sheryl Sandberg: 'If someone offers you a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat,' you know? I like that philosophy of ...

Just get on.'" Sandberg did end up taking the job, and joined as the general manager of Google's business unit, which had four people at the time.

OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor believes you shouldn't allow pride to stand in the way of success. If someone offers you a seat on the "rocket ship," you don't ask which seat, you get on, he said ...

To some degree, you do have to have a level of confidence and taste in-house.” He said this was something he learned from Sheryl Sandberg, former chief operating officer at Meta.