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The rise of Google Plus was a ‘rallying the troops’ moment.

In a 2011 email, Sandberg told colleagues that Google’s social network meant that “for the first time, we have real competition and consumers have real choice.” She wrote that it would mean “will have to be better to win, our margins may go down over time, we will no longer be able to make as many mistakes and hold onto our core users.” Sandberg testifies she was concerned because Google “created almost an exact replica” of Facebook.

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