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A photo of the couple, shared on Facebook by Zuckerberg.

David Goldberg - the husband of Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg - has died suddenly

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said Goldberg was “an amazing person”.

DAVID GOLDBERG, THE husband of Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, has died suddenly, his brother said last night.

Robert Goldberg said his brother, the chief executive of online polling firm SurveyMonkey, had died late on Friday.

“It’s with incredible shock and sadness that I’m letting our friends and family know that my amazing brother, Dave Goldberg, beloved husband of Sheryl Sandberg, father of two wonderful children, and son of Paula Goldberg, passed away suddenly last night,”  he wrote on Facebook.

David Goldberg was the chief executive of online survey firm SurveyMonkey, which is based in Palo Alto, California.

“Dave’s genius, courage and leadership were overshadowed only by his compassion, friendship and heart,” SurveyMonkey said in a statement.

US media outlets said he was 47, and the cause of death had not been immediately determined.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a posting that Goldberg was “an amazing person.”

“I am glad I got to know him. My thoughts and prayers are with Sheryl and her family,” Zuckerberg wrote.

Aside from her work at tech firms, Sandberg has drawn recognition for her bestselling book “Lean In,” a memoir presented as a modern feminist manifest in which she urged women to work to succeed in juggling their careers and family life.

- © AFP, 2015 

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    Jun 26th 2021, 10:09 PM

    There’s a brilliant documentary on Netflix called My Octopus Teacher. It’s absolutely brilliant, definitely worth a watch.

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    Jun 27th 2021, 10:24 PM

    @Seán Ó Briain: yawn – about a guy beyond obsessed with an octopus – where he got the money to make the documentary! I would love to know.

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    Jun 26th 2021, 10:08 PM

    Finally, my Saturday night can begin

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    Jun 27th 2021, 1:04 AM

    What’s in it for the squid? What’s the ‘squid pro quo’ as it were…

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    Jun 26th 2021, 10:29 PM

    They’re very smart: https://youtu.be/8-E7EpQ9PFs

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    Jun 26th 2021, 11:03 PM

    @David Jordan: They are also delicious.

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    Jun 26th 2021, 11:25 PM

    @Lydia: one of the reasons we should leave anything out there in the great big universe alone. We are smart enough but we could also be very delicious.

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    Jun 27th 2021, 12:23 AM

    @David Jordan: they’re unsociable creatures and its believed if they were sociable they could possibly be smarter than humans.

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    Jun 27th 2021, 12:52 AM

    @To Mt: jayus the thoughts of a squid doing a heart transplant doesn’t bear thinking about.

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    Jun 27th 2021, 2:44 AM

    @To Mt: aaaaah you’re squidding me…

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    Jun 26th 2021, 11:25 PM

    Thought it was a quiz about spuds when I saw the headline

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    Jun 27th 2021, 12:43 AM

    Huh, I know WAY more than I realised…… 9/10

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    Jun 26th 2021, 11:47 PM

    10 out of 10

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    Jun 27th 2021, 12:58 AM

    This was Squidworth my time!

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    Jun 27th 2021, 11:28 AM

    Thanks Nicky – this quiz had me laughing out loud!

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    Jun 27th 2021, 4:00 PM

    I thought it said how much to you know about the “squits”? Quite a lot as it happens.

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