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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.
FACEBOOK STILL SUCKS BUT RIP
This was reported all over yesterday. I'm tired of the headline already (yes it's unfortunate tragedy). But Slashdot has to rehash this day old piece of news doesn't it? I'm really tired of this story
> and spouse of Facebook COO Sheryl K. Sandberg
> vacation abroad with Ms. Sandberg
n/t
i'm just glad i've got a clear conscious
This is barely as much news for nerds as it would be if Slashdot posted about poverty and oppression in American today. But people don't lament that part of America do they? Nope, let's all feel sorry for some rich under taxed guy who had servants while homeless starve on the streets. Silicon Valley is despicable this way.
isnt survey monkey the ads that were all over everything back in the early 2000s that always led to malware??? or am i thinking of a different group
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
This story has too much *bergs on it.
A) Sad
B) Happy
C) Indifferent
D) None of the Above
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.
If it were Gates/Jobs/Ellison/Woz/McNealy/Bezos/Dell....OK. That warrants a thread here.
But the CEO of some random online survey company?
Oh wait....Facebook related....gotcha.
What do you call a dead Silicon Valley entrepreneur, venture capitalist and CEO?
A good start.
Inhale that funky Zuckersnatch
'berg overload.
He kept trying to make more money than her. He kept eating to numb the pain. He was so fat and sad he died. It's HER fault.
And where is their story, /.? Where's their vacation? This is a rich 1%er who had all he ever wanted must, but no...stop news for nerds so we can all reflect on how much others have more than they could ever need, but still couldn't stand going to McDonalds and knowing his cashier's hard work is appreciated enough by the good people's of society to reward her simple basic income, not requiring them to become wage slaves to some big bloated tech company like Facebook.
Jews did Facebook, too!!
Slashobituary
Maybe He Leaned In to the knife she was holding.
SurveyMonkey's CEO Dies While Vacationing With Wife Susan Sandberg
Dave Goldberg, the chief executive of SurveyMonkey and spouse of Facebook COO Sheryl K. Sandberg, died on Friday night.
Her name is Sheryl. It's fairly well-known. How do you screw this up when the correct name is in the first sentence of the summary?
Visit the
Karma.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
The summary says Sheryl and the title says Susan. Susan Sandberg is an NPR reporter famous for the cranberry relish recipe and a cute story that goes with it.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Even as a high school student, Dave Goldberg was urging female classmates to speak up. As a young dot-com executive, he had one girlfriend after another, but fell hard for a driven friend named Sheryl Sandberg, pining after her for years. After they wed, Mr. Goldberg pushed her to negotiate hard for high compensation and arranged his schedule so that he could be home with their children when she was traveling for work.
Mr. Goldberg, who died unexpectedly on Friday, was a genial, 47-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur who built his latest company, SurveyMonkey, from a modest enterprise to one recently valued by investors at $2 billion. But he was also perhaps the signature male feminist of his era: the first major chief executive in memory to spur his wife to become as successful in business as he was, and an essential figure in “Lean In,” Ms. Sandberg’s blockbuster guide to female achievement.
Over the weekend, even strangers were shocked at his death, both because of his relatively young age and because they knew of him as the living, breathing, car-pooling center of a new philosophy of two-career marriage.
“They were very much the role models for what this next generation wants to grapple with,” said Debora L. Spar, the president of Barnard College. In a 2011 commencement speech there, Ms. Sandberg told the graduates that whom they married would be their most important career decision.
In the play “The Heidi Chronicles,” revived on Broadway this spring, a male character who is the founder of a media company says that “I don’t want to come home to an A-plus,” explaining that his ambitions require him to marry an unthreatening helpmeet. Mr. Goldberg grew up to hold the opposite view, starting with his upbringing in progressive Minneapolis circles where “there was woman power in every aspect of our lives,” Jeffrey Dachis, a childhood friend, said in an interview.
The Goldberg parents read “The Feminine Mystique” together — in fact, Mr. Goldberg’s father introduced it to his wife, according to Ms. Sandberg’s book. In 1976, Paula Goldberg helped found a nonprofit to aid children with disabilities. Her husband, Mel, a law professor who taught at night, made the family breakfast at home.
Later, when Dave Goldberg was in high school and his prom date, Jill Chessen, stayed silent in a politics class, he chastised her afterward. He said, “You need to speak up,” Ms. Chessen recalled in an interview. “They need to hear your voice.”
Years later, when Karin Gilford, an early employee at Launch, Mr. Goldberg’s digital music company, became a mother, he knew exactly what to do. He kept giving her challenging assignments, she recalled, but also let her work from home one day a week. After Yahoo acquired Launch, Mr. Goldberg became known for distributing roses to all the women in the office on Valentine’s Day.
Ms. Sandberg, who often describes herself as bossy-in-a-good-way, enchanted him when they became friendly in the mid-1990s. He “was smitten with her, even when she was engaged and married to someone else,” Ms. Chessen remembered. After Ms. Sandberg’s marriage ended, she dated other people, but Mr. Goldberg still hung around, even helping her and her then-boyfriend move, recalled Bob Roback, a friend and co-founder of Launch. When they finally married in 2004, friends remember thinking how similar the two were, and that the qualities that might have made Ms. Sandberg intimidating to some men drew Mr. Goldberg to her even more.
Over the next decade, Mr. Goldberg and Ms. Sandberg pioneered new ways of capturing information online, had a son and then a daughter, became immensely wealthy, and hashed out their who-does-what-in-this-marriage issues. Mr. Goldberg’s commute from the Bay Area to Los Angeles became a strain, so he relocated, late
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)
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?
I think it is strange that someone is vacationing with their spouse now.
After reading the comments here, and noting the level of caring, consideration and sympathy for a family going through very difficult circumstances, I've concluded I should never die.
Lemmings are silly; dinosaurs are extinct.
Note to self - Never become a jew
it's only news if they were women or jewish
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
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Valued by investors with shares of SurveyMonkey, no doubt.
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I think it is strange that someone is vacationing with their spouse now.
His mistress must have had a previous engagement.
'The tyrant will always find pretext for his tyranny.' - Aesop's Fables
In the end ot doesn't matter who you are or how much money you have, but how much you loved.
So beware you corporate captains of industry, in the end it's God.
I knew Dice would appreciate the sentiment ; )
A rat-faced, nation-wrecking JEW...
why this even made /. news is stupid crazy
He "leaned in" to a bus.
Kikes
Stuff about dead jews
Must have been something really special - like a solar eclipse on the equinox or something - usually the priest=kings of the .01% usually only work the proles to death, not the mandarins.j
I'm not asking for a full autopsy report, but I'm tired of "famous person dies from undisclosed cause." Was it natural causes or something else? I know this may not be the case here, but I hate when people celebrate a person who dies in a less than noble manner (example: celebrity role model dieing from drug overdose)
...like a fish needs a bicycle.
A kitten smiles.
Mr. Sandberg's wife doesn't go by Mrs. Goldberg?
If this guy is so important his death is a "second page" story, what's the cause of death?
"Unexpected" and "Suddenly" are often euphemisms obituary writers use for suicide, drug overdoses, or "sordid" circumstances. If it was a massive sudden heart attack, why not "Heart Attack". If a late-diagnosed cancer, why not "after ineffective treatment" (and then why "Vacation"?)
Sure, overweight middle aged Jewish guys suddenly dying of heart disease is not unheard of, but the near universal glaring vagueness of the circumstances of his death in the media is a bit odd.
The reason it's important is: 1) The Surviving Spouse has hawked a book about her perfect marriage and humble-bragged details of her private life. 2) Apparent deference to a well-connected Power Couple.
Test for shellfish toxin.
The spouse did it.
I'm not serious, but this whole push for people to be aggressive and have everything they could ever want isn't super healthy...