SurveyMonkey CEO and Facebook COO's husband dies suddenly

According to foreign media reports, Survey Monkey CEO and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's husband David Goldberg suddenly passed away on Friday local time. The specific cause of illness has not been announced. It is reported that Goldberg is 47 years old and has two children with Sandberg. Goldberg's brother Robert Goldberg announced the news on Facebook. He wrote: "Although our grief after losing (him) cannot be expressed in words, we want his children to understand that he meant a lot to all of you." In addition, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg also shared Robert's article on his personal website and called David "an amazing person."

Goldberg has a very rich resume. Before founding SurveyMonkey, he held senior positions at Capitol Records, Yahoo and other large companies. SurveyMonkey has about 500 employees, with more than 20 million users worldwide, 2.8 million survey responses per day, and 473,000 surveys per month.

Goldberg started dating Sandberg in 2002 and married two years later. Although both are successful in their careers, they still discuss the division of household chores at home without one party being particularly dominant. Sandlberg pointed out that this partnership between her and her husband is the key to her personal career success.

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One key is that they both leave work at 5:30 p.m. and go home. Two years ago, Goldberg revealed in an interview with Daily that he and Sandberg both try to maintain their family life and not let it affect their work. He said: "I'm home with the kids at 6 or 8. If I have a work dinner, I'll schedule it after 8. But we work in the evening. When the kids go to bed, you will get a lot of emails after 8 p.m.."

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, and former MySpace president Jason Hischhorn all expressed their condolences on Twitter over Goldberg's death.