Dave Goldberg

Dave Goldberg
David Bruce "Dave" Goldbergwas an American management consultant and businessman. He was the founder of LAUNCH Media and the CEO of SurveyMonkey. He was married to Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth2 October 1967
CountryUnited States of America
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We saw that our customers required help beyond the data sets they had and that they could benefit from a wider opinion. So we built SurveyMonkey Audience, and we've now got 4 million users who signed up to take surveys. Our clients can choose the demographic they want to hear from, and we can provide that sample.
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Things are bad in 2001 at Yahoo. There's been layoffs, restructuring, lots of people left.
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Sometimes the things you decide not to do are actually the biggest things to do in your career.
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'Cosmopolitan' used to publish five covers across the U.S. so that if one was unpopular, it wouldn't tank their entire sales.
There's not a whole lot of advantage for a company to be public.
When you're friends with someone, you can't just go out to dinner and say 'O.K., now this is a date.' You've got to do something very different.
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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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I think Salesforce, going public very early on before they were profitable, it made a lot of sense for them because it got customers comfortable that these guys were going to have capital and be transparent about their business.
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One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her. She obviously knows me incredibly well and what I'm going through. I don't know that I've been as helpful to her as she has been to me.
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Most of what we've done at SurveyMonkey is create a market, which I would say is much harder than trying to enter a market that already exists. But if you get it right, it can become a great business.
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The only thing that's going to work from a consumer perspective is something that's very simple, very low price, and works with all labels. I don't see that happening in the next year.
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There is a cost associated with DRM, and that is lost sales of content.
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