Zuckerberg is leaving her position as director of marketing at the Palo Alto-based website after six years with the company, Facebook said Wednesday.
"We can confirm Randi has decided to leave Facebook to start her own company. We are all grateful for her important service," a Facebook spokeswoman said in an email.
Technology news website AllThingsD broke the story Wednesday by presenting Randi Zuckerberg's resignation letter in full.
The letter, which was addressed to COO Sheryl Sandberg and VP of Global Communications, Marketing and Public Policy Elliot Schrage, said that Randi Zuckerberg plans to start her own business -- dubbed RtoZMedia -- that will "launch (her) own innovative programming and work with media companies to develop their programming in new and more social ways."
"Now is the perfect time for me to move outside of Facebook to build a company focused on the exciting trends underway in the media industry," the letter reads.
Randi Zuckerberg, unlike her more famous brother, graduated from Harvard. After getting her degree in 2003,
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she worked in accounts at Ogilvy & Mather and Forbes before joining Facebook in 2005, according to her LinkedIn profile. While with the company, she helped spearhead Facebook Live, a live streaming video channel filmed at the company's headquarters.
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