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SurveyMonkey's CEO Dies While Vacationing With Wife Sheryl Sandberg
McGruber writes: Dave Goldberg, the chief executive of SurveyMonkey and spouse of Facebook COO Sheryl K. Sandberg, died on Friday night. He was 47. 'We are heartbroken by this news,' Facebook said in a statement. Mark Zuckerberg, a friend of the family, said that Mr. Goldberg died while on vacation abroad with Ms. Sandberg. Goldberg built Surveymonkey into a provider of web surveys on almost every topic imaginable, with 500 employees and 25 million surveys created. News reports said it was valued at nearly $2 billion when it raised a round of funding last year.
Dude was fat and lead a stressful life. Under these conditions, such things happen.
This is not a slight or an insult, it is a statement of fact about the general lifestyle of Americans like myself: Diet, exercise, and stress reduction, unless you want to go at 45, 50 or 60 (and 60 is the new 45) ...
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
To all: life is short, so life it to the fullest every day. RIP Mr. Sandberg.
sigs are for losers (except to point out that sigs are for losers)
You think Surveymonkey was a contribution to society?
I didn't realize /dot was a place for obituaries. Who the fuck cares? So many people die in tech everyday but these assholes get a headline?
What a bunch of assholes you all seem to be.
Someone dies. A spouse, father and son, and everyone's reaction seems to be along the lines of "good riddance". Two children are going to grow up without a father and your best attempt at humanity is "ohh another 1%-er died - so what"
Is this news - no, but it is social interest. Its a reminder to live whatever life you have to the best you can, because you never know when you'll die.
So get out of your parent's basement and do something today that makes people proud to know you.
richard - 48, overweight, stressed, 2%-er