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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It takes awhile to get people onboard. We're really happy with where we are.
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In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.
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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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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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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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'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.
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Things are bad in 2001 at Yahoo. There's been layoffs, restructuring, lots of people left.
Sometimes the things you decide not to do are actually the biggest things to do in your career.
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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.