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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I run the largest survey company in the world. It just so happens to be the second-largest company run by someone in my house.
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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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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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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 save everything up until Sunday night because if I start sending emails on Saturday afternoon, then people have to start responding to me on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.
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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The NBC using us on air is a great endorsement of quality.
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I made my kids into Viking fans, so they will carry their misery with them, too. A little disappointment in life goes a long way.
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It takes awhile to get people onboard. We're really happy with where we are.
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I want to go public because I have the right reason to go public - because the benefits outweigh the costs.
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I started my business with my best friend from high school.
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Consideration, certainly. But I would question whether he'll ever get in, in part because safety is a hard position for guys to get in at. I don't why.
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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.
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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.