The Most Powerful Woman at Facebook Is Disease-Free from a Cancer Not Considered Curable ‘I Had Gone from Jumping on Planes to Business Meetings’ to Living ‘Day by Day’

A prominent exec in tech, Nicola Mendelsohn, 52, is an eight-year blood cancer survivor who manages her health and teams at Meta who owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp with this same mantra stop worrying about something you cannot change. She was diagnosed in 2016 with follicular lymphoma, which is not considered curable, and instead, managed like a chronic disease.