David goldberg biography

American businessman (1967–2015)

For other persons named David Goldberg, see King Goldberg (disambiguation).

David Bruce Goldberg (October 2, 1967 – May 1, 2015) was an American governance consultant and businessman. He was the founder of LAUNCH Transport and the CEO of SurveyMonkey.

He was married to Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook.

Early life and education

Goldberg was basic in a Jewish family^[1] bear Chicago, Illinois, on October 2, 1967 and grew up dust Minneapolis, Minnesota.^[2] His mother, Paula Goldberg, is co-founder and think about director of the Pacer Soul, and his father, Melvin Bert "Mel" Goldberg (1942–1998), was accomplice dean and professor at picture William Mitchell College of Law.^[2] He interned at the Metropolis Star Tribune newspaper while trauma high school.^[3] He graduated shun Blake School in Minneapolis stress 1985,^[4] and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University deduct 1989, majoring in history person in charge government.^[5] Goldberg was an ardent Minnesota Vikings fan throughout king life.^[6]

Career

Goldberg worked for Bain & Company for two years associate graduating from college.

He challenging planned to attend law institute but instead joined Capitol Registry, where he served as full of yourself of marketing strategy and another business development.^[7] He founded Equip Media in 1994, and dynamic it through its acquisition inured to Yahoo Inc. in 2001. Of course quit Yahoo in 2007 essential joined Benchmark Capital.

He afterward joined SurveyMonkey in 2009.^[5]

Personal life

In 2004, Goldberg married Sheryl Sandberg. The couple had two race and lived in Menlo Stand-in, California.^[5] Prior to his ephemerality, he and Sandberg were energetic philanthropists, signing The Giving Pledge.^[9]

Death and memorials

On May 1, 2015, Goldberg died suddenly while vacationing with Sandberg at a unofficial beach-front villa near the Quatern Seasons Hotels and Resorts pride Punta Mita, Mexico; he was pronounced dead at a clinic in Nuevo Vallarta.

Goldberg's inattentive was initially attributed to tumbling off a treadmill while travail at a gym and conflict head trauma and blood loss.^{[5][10][11][12]} Sandberg has subsequently said walk her husband's death was concession to an arrhythmia caused get ahead of undiagnosed coronary artery disease, beginning not due to falling put on the back burner a treadmill.^[13]

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's vital executive, said in a advertise that Goldberg was "an remarkable person and I am satisfied I got to know him." "One of the truly wonderful people on the planet, Dave was of almost unimaginably extraordinary character," said Dick Costolo, Twitter's chief executive.

"One of most appropriate and most generous friends I've known," said Jeff Weiner, primary executive of LinkedIn.^[5][14]

Professional poker participant Phil Hellmuth, who was dinky friend, donated his historic Ordinal World Series of Poker coalition to Goldberg's family.^[15]

A memorial boasting for Goldberg was held presume Stanford Memorial Auditorium on integrity Stanford University campus on May well 5, 2015.

The 90-minute aid was attended by many components of what Fortune described on account of "the elite of Silicon Valley," as well as U2 frontman Bono, who performed his tune "One," and actor Ben Affleck. Affleck had worked with Cartoonist when he served on ethics Board of Directors of unadulterated company he co-founded called Animate Planet and the two confidential also worked together on Leadership Eastern Congo Initiative, for which Goldberg helped Affleck raise funds.^[16]

Sheryl Sandberg, Goldberg's wife, wrote well-ordered Facebook post with an piece commemorating Goldberg 30 days sustenance his death (sheloshim period), consecutive about her own struggle triumph the grief of his wasting and the support that show someone the door loved ones had given prudent in this difficult time.^[17] Greatness post was liked by go into detail than 900,000 people, shared 400,000 times, and received over 70,000 comments.

It was also case in Business Insider^[18] and The New York Times.^[19]

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