Dave Goldberg
Dave Goldberg was an American management consultant, entrepreneur, and technology executive who served as CEO of SurveyMonkey from 2009 until his death in 2015. He previously founded LAUNCH Media in 1994, which was acquired by Yahoo in 2001, and subsequently led Yahoo Music as Vice President and General Manager. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in history and government and was married to Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook.
“Dave Goldberg — Former SurveyMonkey CEO who died at 47 of undiagnosed heart disease.”
“Unfortunately, EKGs have a 4% either false positive or false negative where he had actually done so much cardio that he taught his heart to overcome the heart disease... he died of ventricular arrhythmia.”
Source→“Dave was such a legend. So loved. The inspiration in many ways for All In and the Bestie group... he was the original, you know, who got everybody together.”
Source→“Thankfully to Cheryl, to Chamath, to some other folks, we got him back to be able to do a full autopsy and found his heart disease.”
Source→“We were on vacation for a friend's 50th birthday. Another bestie, Phil Deutsch.”
Source→“So this is my sister-in-law is Sheryl Sandberg. She wrote a book called Option B about his death and about grieving.”
Source→“I took the trip to Japan with Dave Goldberg in 2005 to try to convince Sony to join Yahoo and Microsoft on the fight against, you know, the disintegrated solutions.”
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