Deb Liu

Deborah Liu is an American technology executive and CEO of Ancestry.com.[1] Liu serves on the board of Intuit[2] and Women in Product.[3][4]

Education and life

Liu is of Chinese descent.[5] She is a graduate of Duke University (B.S.E in Civil Engineering) and Stanford Business School.[6]

Career

Liu was director of product for the end-to-end buyer experience at eBay and spearheaded the integration between eBay and PayPal.[2][7] She was director of product marketing management and product management at PayPal.[8]

In 2009, she joined Facebook,[9] where she worked on Facebook Credits and Facebook Platform[10] and helped build their mobile app install ad business.[11] In 2016, as VP of product development, she founded Facebook Marketplace[5][12] and became VP of marketplace in 2017.[13]

After being at Facebook for 11 years, Liu joined Ancestry.com as its CEO, effective March 1, 2021.[14]

She was included on Business Insider's list of "The Most Powerful Female Engineers"[15] and PaymentsSource's list of "The Most Influential Women in Payments",[16] and is a member of the Committee of 100.[17]

In August 2022, she published her first book "Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work".[5]

Liu is a seed investor and advisor to startups.[18]

References
  1. Ford, Brody; Chang, Emily (February 3, 2021). "Facebook Executive Deborah Liu Named CEO of Ancestry.com". Bloomberg News.
  2. Intuit (July 20, 2017). "Intuit Appoints Deborah Liu to Board of Directors" (Press release) – via BusinessWire.
  3. "About Us – Board of Directors". Women in Product. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  4. Stanton, Zack (April 22, 2020). "'We wanted to be incredibly aggressive with this'". Politico.
  5. "Ancestry CEO: Being labeled 'the other' was my rocket fuel to succeed". msnbc.com. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
  6. "Facebook Platform, 10 years later: VP Deb Liu on the social network's expanding developer program". geekwire.com. July 26, 2017. Retrieved October 10, 2022.
  7. Olsen, Parmy (January 29, 2018). "Meet The Woman Building Facebook's eBay-Killer". Forbes.
  8. "Deborah Liu, director of product, Facebook platform at Facebook". businessinsider.com. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
  9. Deb Liu (November 14, 2017). "'Optimize for people and passion,' says Facebook's Deb Liu". The Lily (Washington Post) (Interview). Interviewed by The Lily and OK Real.
  10. Winn, Layne (October 15, 2019). "Founder of Facebook Marketplace Deb Liu shares how Sheryl Sandberg convinced her to join". ABC News.
  11. Lynley, Matthew (February 12, 2014). "Meet The Woman Behind One Of Facebook's Fastest-Growing And Most Lucrative New Businesses". BuzzFeed News.
  12. Thau, Barbara (December 27, 2018). "Facebook 'Marketplace' Executive Reveals Key Retail Trends For 2019". Forbes.
  13. "Facebook's Eddie O'Neil takes over Platform as Deb Liu grows Marketplace". techcrunch.com. September 13, 2017. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
  14. "Ancestry.com Taps Facebook Executive for CEO Role". Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute. February 4, 2021.
  15. Bort, Julie; Sandler, Rachel (June 21, 2018). "The 39 Most Powerful Female Engineers of 2018". Business Insider.
  16. "Deb Liu". wsj.com. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
  17. "Members - Committee of 100 - Deborah Liu". Committee of 100. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  18. "How This Tech Leader Found Her Voice and Took the Reins of a Major Company". entrepreneur.com. August 19, 2022. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
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