Dave Goldberg's Death

The entrepreneur Dave Goldberg died at the age of 47. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Entrepreneur and executive best remembered as the founder of the multimedia company LAUNCH Media as well the CEO of online survey and data collection company SurveyMonkey. He died following a treadmill accident in May 2015 at the age of 47.

He was married to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. He had two children.

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For me, going home at 5:30 is as much about my own choices, but also giving my team those choices, too.

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Outlets are turning away from phone polling, which can be problematic. For example, we did a poll for NBC around the Ebola crisis; we provided results in 24 hours. Their traditional phone poll would have taken a week to turn around. We’re showing people we can do high-quality work: we’ve proved that with the work we do with the media.

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My closest adviser is my wife. It’s nice to have one of the smartest people in business as your life partner, and someone you have dinner with and breakfast with.

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You want to hire great people and give them the opportunity to fail. You need to let them figure things out as they go along. If they fail repeatedly, then you probably have to find a different person, but if you don’t let people have that opportunity to fail, they don’t get to learn and grow and try things.

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The NBC using us on air is a great endorsement of quality.