Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died • Hacker News Board

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by walterbell » Sat, May 02, 2015, 6:48 PM UTC

shabda wrote: post #29

smm2000 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean by comprehensive health check? What tests should I do? I do yearly physicals, but I feel they are mostly "feel good" exercises.

They are feel good exercises, until they aren't ... Don't think of all OK result as money wasted, its insurance to catch any chronic illness in time. I would consider tests comprehensive if tests all major internal organs (kidney, liver, heart, spleen + common cancers depending on gender/age), you can come up with one after talking to a physician. Because I am based in India, I can only recommend India specific one,…

Thanks for the pointer. How much does a comprehensive test cost in India and are the test records given to the patient? I've wondered whether traditional Ayurveda and modern medicine are complementary.

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by alexqgb » Sat, May 02, 2015, 6:52 PM UTC

rrtwo wrote: post #8

Cool video with Dave about startups: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTtnSgQL-Bg

That's a really great video. I can understand why he was so highly regarded. So sorry that this is what brought it to my attention.

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by kayoone » Sat, May 02, 2015, 6:56 PM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #23

chrisper wrote: post #12

I wonder how he died?

He looked otherwise healthy I wonder if it was something related to sleep apnea. Ryan Davis from Giantbomb also died suddenly while on his honeymoon. http://www.giantbomb.com/ryan-davis/3040-93335/forums/ryan-d...

Doesn't make sense to speculate, could be a million things like heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, aneurysm, complications with undiagnosed diabetes etc etc

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by throwaway9324 » Sat, May 02, 2015, 7:02 PM UTC

shabda wrote: post #16

I will take this time to write something I wrote on Steve Jobs death: go get a comprehensive health check today. In our community, we are data driven about everything, except our health and body. I will copy what I wrote 1304 days ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080327 In January 2009 I was Stage 5 chronic kidney disease, in July 2009 I had a kidney transplant. Looking back there were so many telltale sign…

I fail to see how screening of healthy, relatively young, people would be "data driven".

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by brador » Sat, May 02, 2015, 7:03 PM UTC

shabda wrote: post #16

I will take this time to write something I wrote on Steve Jobs death: go get a comprehensive health check today. In our community, we are data driven about everything, except our health and body. I will copy what I wrote 1304 days ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080327 In January 2009 I was Stage 5 chronic kidney disease, in July 2009 I had a kidney transplant. Looking back there were so many telltale sign…

What were the telltale signs?

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by kgwgk » Sat, May 02, 2015, 7:04 PM UTC

shabda wrote: post #16

I will take this time to write something I wrote on Steve Jobs death: go get a comprehensive health check today. In our community, we are data driven about everything, except our health and body. I will copy what I wrote 1304 days ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080327 In January 2009 I was Stage 5 chronic kidney disease, in July 2009 I had a kidney transplant. Looking back there were so many telltale sign…

> If you haven't had a health check, get it done today.

Or you might want to postpone your visit to the doctor until you have an actual reason to go there:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/opinion/skip-your-annual-p...

http://kaiserhealthnews.org/news/ritual-not-science-keeps-th...

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by learnstats2 » Sat, May 02, 2015, 7:08 PM UTC

throwaway9324 wrote: post #34

shabda wrote: post #16

I will take this time to write something I wrote on Steve Jobs death: go get a comprehensive health check today. In our community, we are data driven about everything, except our health and body. I will copy what I wrote 1304 days ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080327 In January 2009 I was Stage 5 chronic kidney disease, in July 2009 I had a kidney transplant. Looking back there were so many telltale sign…

I fail to see how screening of healthy, relatively young, people would be "data driven".

In game theory and probability, it is almost always considered better to have data about something so that you can act appropriately. (I admit there are some theoretical exceptions, but I don't think they apply here). Even if you are healthy and young, it's better to hold your own data than not.

Sometimes, thanks to technology, we don't know who has access to our data and whether this is going to be used against us: for example, will we have an impossibly high insurance premium attached to us for life - with the data in our hands, we lose the right to use insurance to even out that risk.

Sometimes, in medicine, there are ethical considerations, that the eventual treatment for a screened condition presents its own risk that people may not wish to decide and the healthcare system might not be well-equipped to manage.

Nonetheless, I still personally prefer to have the data than not. I want to decide my own healthcare needs based on my own knowledge and understanding of my own risks. This is "data driven".

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by izacus » Sat, May 02, 2015, 7:10 PM UTC

kgwgk wrote: post #36

shabda wrote: post #16

I will take this time to write something I wrote on Steve Jobs death: go get a comprehensive health check today. In our community, we are data driven about everything, except our health and body. I will copy what I wrote 1304 days ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080327 In January 2009 I was Stage 5 chronic kidney disease, in July 2009 I had a kidney transplant. Looking back there were so many telltale sign…

> If you haven't had a health check, get it done today. Or you might want to postpone your visit to the doctor until you have an actual reason to go there: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/opinion/skip-your-annual-p... http://kaiserhealthnews.org/news/ritual-not-science-keeps-th...

How does that help you test for early stage cancer markers? That tests usually isn't in the batch of regular (and it's quite expensive), but it does make a difference between death an survival.

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by cvgraham » Sat, May 02, 2015, 7:19 PM UTC

Dave was one of the best people in the tech space -- genuinely honest, super-smart and just an all-around good guy. He was one of the few people I really looked up to and admired in the valley. This is a huge loss today.

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by larrys » Sat, May 02, 2015, 7:20 PM UTC

joshu wrote: post #21

csense wrote: post #15

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?

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

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.