Dave Goldberg

Ex-Yahoos Getting Downloaded by PE Firms and Others on Possible Deals

Kara Swisher in News on November 11, 2011 at 2:53 pm PT

Former employees are good for something, apparently!

SurveyMonkey’s Goldberg, Joyus’s Cassidy and Airbnb’s Chesky on Silicon Valley Innovation: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)

Kara Swisher in AsiaD on November 8, 2011 at 2:01 pm PT

A trio of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs give their take on its culture and commerce, and how they’re trying to export that as they venture into Asian markets.

SurveyMonkey’s Dave Goldberg, Joyus’s Sukhinder Singh Cassidy and Airbnb’s Brian Chesky: Highlights From AsiaD (Video)

Beth Callaghan in AsiaD on October 20, 2011 at 4:24 am PT

Three Silicon Valley founders formed AllThingsD’s first-ever panel of entrepreneurs.

What Bubble? SurveyMonkey’s Dave Goldberg, Joyus’s Sukhinder Singh Cassidy and Airbnb’s Brian Chesky

John Paczkowski in AsiaD on October 19, 2011 at 10:52 pm PT

If you don’t want to call it a “bubble,” that’s up to you. But it’s clear that what’s happening in Silicon Valley is different from just about everywhere else. Three of its most interesting stars share their take on the scene, and explain how they’re trying to export it to Asia.

Final AsiaD Speakers: Apple’s Phil Schiller and Former VP Al Gore

Kara Swisher in News on October 4, 2011 at 5:15 pm PT

AsiaD is now ready for launch, with a little taste of Apple and the Veep.

Even More AsiaD Speakers: Yahoo’s Yang, HTC’s Wang, Samsung’s Hong and More!

Kara Swisher in AsiaD on September 12, 2011 at 10:08 pm PT

You want more AsiaD speakers, we got more. And there are more to come, too!

My Picks for Yahoo’s Next CEO — Maybe Snoop Dogg, Ya Digg?

Kara Swisher in Media on September 7, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

While the Yahoo board has yet to begin a search, I have already been hard at work on selecting the next CEO.

A BoomTown Bier-Trinken Visit to the Gourmet Haus Staudt, Home of iPhonegate! (Can You Say Oktoberfest in April?)

Kara Swisher in News on April 27, 2010 at 5:33 am PT

When BoomTown was kibitzing with SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg about where to meet up this week for a chat to catch up, we decided to forgo the obvious and instead choose the complete Silicon Valley cliche of the moment. Destination: Redwood City and the now-infamous Gourmet Haus Staudt. As in, the the beer garden behind the German grocery store where the iPhone 4G prototype was snatched from a birthday-celebrating Apple engineer by person still unknown and sold to the now-police-shookdown Gizmodo gadget site. Here’s our Gemütlichkeit travelogue!

Facebook COO Sandberg to Add the Magic Kingdom Board Seat to Her When-You-Wish-Upon-a-Star Resume

Kara Swisher in News on December 23, 2009 at 9:56 pm PT

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg already has one of the shinier resumes in Silicon Valley as a Harvard grad with stints at the World Bank, the U.S. Treasury Department and Google, as well as a seat on the board of coffee kingpin Starbucks. She was also named one of Fortune magazine’s 50 Most Powerful Women this year, clocking in at No. 22. Now Sandberg has been nominated to be a director on the Disney board, a position that will get rubberstamped at the entertainment giant’s annual meeting in March.

Two Yahoo Music Veterans Resurface with DashBox, a Service You’ll Never Use (Unless You’re a Music Pro)

Peter Kafka in Media on October 28, 2009 at 10:21 am PT

Digital music entrepreneurs Dave Goldberg and Bob Roback, who built up Launch Media in the 1990s and ran Yahoo’s music group for much of this decade, are trying their hands at tunes again. This time, though, they’re not trying to convince consumers to pay for music or asking advertisers to subsidize it. Instead, they’re trying to act as a middleman between labels and publishers who own music and advertisers, Hollywood and other folks who want to use the tunes for commercial purposes.