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For those of us who've never heard of this guy, what did he do, and why is this the number one story on HN right now?

by csense 11y ago

roaree 11y ago
He was the CEO of a huge and successful startup, and husband to Sheryl Sandberg.
- th0br0 11y ago
  For those who had to look up the name of his wife like I did: she's the COO @ Facebook
- dredmorbius 11y ago
  And Sandberg is the COO of Facebook and author of the book Lean In, about women in tech / business.
joshu 11y ago
I would have thought that someone on HN would know how to use a search engine.
- larrys 11y ago
  In an oddly related way this reminds me of a time prior to the Internet. In that era you would open up the Yellow Pages and call a company or a store and ask them if they "carried such and such widget". They would reply "no". You would then say "do you know of anyone who does" hoping for a tidbit of info or direction on who you could contact next. The person on the other end would inevitably tell you to, as if this was valuable info, "why don't you try the Yellow Pages?". People really did that. The irony is not that you got their number from the YP but that they thought they were giving you good advice by telling you to use something that was as ubiquitous as doing a google search is today.
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  - joshu 11y ago
    I wasn't being helpful. I was being insulting. I hope you consider taking this response the same way.
    - larrys 11y ago
      It is unclear why you would insult me for what I said.
      - joshu 11y ago
        Because you were both condescending and longwinded while missing the point.
cpncrunch 11y ago
Here is a really interesting interview with him: http://entrepreneurzine.com/dave-goldberg-surveymonkey-at-startup-grind-silicon-valley/#sthash.Eieb7FzG.dpbs http://entrepreneurzine.com/dave-goldberg-surveymonkey-at-st...
lexcorvus 11y ago
It's an understandable question. Many media outlets are treading carefully, identifying him by his accomplishments (successful entrepreneur and investor) and position (CEO of SurveyMonkey), when in fact the main reason people have heard of Dave Goldberg is that his wife is Facebook COO and Lean In author Sheryl Sandberg. And, while it's true that you could figure out his identity using a search engine (as one commenter suggested), few sources would be so blunt in their explanation of the story's apparent importance, so I think asking the question here isn't out of line. (CNN.com, to its credit, ran the story under the headline "Facebook exec's husband dies".)

For those of us who've never heard of this guy, what did he do, and why is this the number one story on HN right now?

by csense 11y ago

For those of us who've never heard of this guy, what did he do, and why is this the number one story on HN right now?

roaree 11y ago

He was the CEO of a huge and successful startup, and husband to Sheryl Sandberg.

th0br0 11y ago
For those who had to look up the name of his wife like I did: she's the COO @ Facebook
dredmorbius 11y ago
And Sandberg is the COO of Facebook and author of the book Lean In, about women in tech / business.

joshu 11y ago

I would have thought that someone on HN would know how to use a search engine.

larrys 11y ago
In an oddly related way this reminds me of a time prior to the Internet. In that era you would open up the Yellow Pages and call a company or a store and ask them if they "carried such and such widget". They would reply "no". You would then say "do you know of anyone who does" hoping for a tidbit of info or direction on who you could contact next. The person on the other end would inevitably tell you to, as if this was valuable info, "why don't you try the Yellow Pages?". People really did that. The irony is not that you got their number from the YP but that they thought they were giving you good advice by telling you to use something that was as ubiquitous as doing a google search is today.
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- joshu 11y ago
  I wasn't being helpful. I was being insulting. I hope you consider taking this response the same way.
  - larrys 11y ago
    It is unclear why you would insult me for what I said.
    - joshu 11y ago
      Because you were both condescending and longwinded while missing the point.

cpncrunch 11y ago

Here is a really interesting interview with him: http://entrepreneurzine.com/dave-goldberg-surveymonkey-at-startup-grind-silicon-valley/#sthash.Eieb7FzG.dpbs http://entrepreneurzine.com/dave-goldberg-surveymonkey-at-st...

lexcorvus 11y ago

It's an understandable question. Many media outlets are treading carefully, identifying him by his accomplishments (successful entrepreneur and investor) and position (CEO of SurveyMonkey), when in fact the main reason people have heard of Dave Goldberg is that his wife is Facebook COO and Lean In author Sheryl Sandberg. And, while it's true that you could figure out his identity using a search engine (as one commenter suggested), few sources would be so blunt in their explanation of the story's apparent importance, so I think asking the question here isn't out of line. (CNN.com, to its credit, ran the story under the headline "Facebook exec's husband dies".)