David Goldberg, the SurveyMonkey CEO perhaps best known as the husband of Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, died on Friday at a private resort in Mexico from head trauma and blood loss after a gym accident, Mexican officials said Monday. It appears Goldberg, 47, "fell off the treadmill and cracked his head open," said a spokesman for the prosecutor's office in Mexico's Nayarit State, where Goldberg was vacationing with family and friends.
When Robert Goldberg found his brother on the floor of the gym, he was still alive, the spokesman said, and Sandberg visited the hospital in Nuevo Vallarta. There will be no charges filed related to the accident.
Goldberg was a well-regarded entrepreneur and mentor, and the family is holding an invitation-only memorial service at Stanford on Tuesday. Men are being asked to wear an open collar "in keeping with Dave's lifelong hatred of ties," according to the invitation. He and Sandberg, married since 2004, have two children together.
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