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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In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.
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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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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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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 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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I am at home with my kids from 6 to 8. If I have a work dinner, I'll schedule to have dinner after 8. But we're working at night. You'll get plenty of emails from me post-8 P.M. when my kids go to bed.
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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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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 just find that people can waste a lot of time in meetings, so I try to restrict meetings to the minimum that they need to be. But I have lots of time in my day where I am available to have informal conversations, where I grab someone to talk, and people can just walk up to my desk and talk to me.
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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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You've got to give people a disincentive to cheat.
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If you're an entrepreneur and you're starting a company, I think the first thing you do is you go and talk to a bunch of people. But then the next thing you probably should do is figure out if there's a broader demand than just people you know. That's where I think SurveyMonkey is pretty valuable to people.
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It's a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.
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I really like the mission at SurveyMonkey, which is, we help people make better decisions. It's just a great thing.