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Was an American management consultant and businessman.
He was the founder of LAUNCH Media and the CEO of SurveyMonkey.
He founded LAUNCH Media in 1994, and led it through its acquisition by Yahoo Inc. in 2001.
He quit Yahoo in 2007 and joined Benchmark Capital.
He then joined SurveyMonkey in 2009.
In 2004, Goldberg married Sheryl Sandberg. The couple had two children and lived in Menlo Park, California. Prior to his death, he and Sandberg were active philanthropists, signing The Giving Pledge.
On May 1, 2015, 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. Goldberg's death was initially attributed to falling off a treadmill while exercising at a gym and suffering head trauma and blood loss. Sandberg has subsequently said that her husband's death was due to an arrhythmia caused by undiagnosed coronary artery disease, and not due to falling from a treadmill.
Sheryl Sandberg, Goldberg's wife, wrote a Facebook post with an essay commemorating 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.
