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The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan

09: Leading a Billion Dollar Company (SurveyMonkey) to Success - Entrepreneurship 101 with Dave Goldberg

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan

Nathan Chan

Marketing, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8662 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2014

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Obstacles, opportunities, and the ability to operate amid them: that's the business of business. Dave Goldberg knows. He does it every day. After post-college stints in management consulting and the music industry, Goldberg wanted to lead. He had one problem — his young age. But he turned that obstacle into an opportunity. “I needed to try running something, and no one, at [my] age of 26, was going to let me run anything,” he says. “So I decided to start my own company.” That company, LAUNCH Media, was such a success that Goldberg ultimately sold it to Yahoo. He went on to become the CEO of a small company called SurveyMonkey, which has grown in size and profit under his leadership. With more than 20 million users, the company is reportedly worth more than $1 billion. In his personal life, Goldberg has two kids and is married to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.   In this interview you will learn:   - Leadership 101 - A key secret that Dave applies to his life that has held him in very good stead - How to build a great team - Why the SurveyMonkey business model is so successful - What it takes for a startup to succeed - & Much more!   I Need Your Help! If you haven’t already, I would love if you could be awesome and take a minute to leave a quick rating and review of the podcast on iTunes by clicking on the link below. It’s the most amazing way to help the show grow and reach more people! Leave a review for the Foundr Podcast!

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0:00.0

This is episode number nine of the Founder Podcast.

0:04.8

What you need is thirst.

0:06.6

You need to be a thirsty human.

0:08.4

Who is intent on learning.

0:10.7

It's a really fascinating exploration of human potential.

0:14.4

Now.

0:16.8

The Founder Podcast.

0:19.5

Even the greatest entrepreneurs had help.

0:22.4

If you want to learn from the most successful founders on the planet, you are in the right place.

0:28.1

Branson, Mark Cuban, Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss, Ariana Huffington, Deep Case, Gary V, Sophia Amoroso, Barbara Corcoran, Damon, John.

0:35.2

Learn from the greatest minds in business today with interviews hosted by Nathan Chan.

0:39.7

This is not your average entrepreneur podcast.

0:43.3

The Founder Podcast.

0:50.5

Hey guys, thank you so much for tuning in.

0:53.8

Before we start today's episode, I just want to let

0:56.6

you know that our goal at founder is to help entrepreneurs succeed however we can by giving

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away high quality content in the form of interviews, blog posts, podcasts, YouTube videos,

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you name it. We put out so much content to help you.

1:11.5

And another interesting project that we're working on right now

1:14.3

is partnering with world-class founders like Damon John,

1:18.2

Alexa von Tobel, Greta Van Riel,

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and so many more to teach crucial skills like negotiation, finance, e-commerce,

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