11 Facts About Dave Goldberg

David Bruce Goldberg was an American management consultant and businessman.

Dave Goldberg was the founder of LAUNCH Media and the CEO of SurveyMonkey.

Dave Goldberg was married to Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook.

Dave Goldberg was born in a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois, on October 2,1967 and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Dave Goldberg interned at the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper while in high school.

Dave Goldberg was an enthusiastic Minnesota Vikings fan throughout his life.

Dave Goldberg had planned to attend law school but instead joined Capitol Records, where he served as director of marketing strategy and new business development.

Dave Goldberg founded LAUNCH Media in 1994, and led it through its acquisition by Yahoo Inc in 2001.

Dave Goldberg quit Yahoo in 2007 and joined Benchmark Capital.

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

Sheryl Sandberg, Dave Goldberg's wife, wrote a Facebook post with an essay commemorating Dave Goldberg 30 days after his death, talking about her own struggle overcoming the grief of his death and the support that her loved ones had given her in this difficult time.