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Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by wpietri »

pen2l wrote: post #127
wpietri wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Worst case, he's implying that illegal drug use is a factor in the death of somebody known to people here. Best case, he's bringing up something irrelevant on a thread where people are paying their respects and/or dealing with a deep and sudden loss and is doing it in a way where he's oblivious to the possible implication. Either way, I think shitty is a reasonable word. If he wants to talk about an issue in Silicon…

No, what's shitty here is you twisting my words. I never said anything about illegal drug use . I have friends who were getting ADHD medicine (subscribed by a licensed psychiatrist), but had to stop because of heart problems. THIS IS COMMON. As I said, cardiovascular diseases are an amazingly big killer of life. That is what I'm talking about. I think it's an apt time to mention this -- people are emotionally engaged…

I did not twist your words. You also never said anything about legal drug use, so when I said "worst case" I was pointing out one end of a scale of possible interpretations. That you were talking about technically legal abuse of drugs is on the scale I describe.

I stand by my point: either you were suggesting that drug abuse might be a factor here or you were bringing up something approximately irrelevant. Either way, that's shitty. Let people have their time to pay their respects and mourn without you jumping in with your kids-eat-your-veggies hobbyhorse.

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by sontek »

jsprogrammer wrote: post #103
beachstartup wrote: post #102

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uhm, by all accounts (especially the video in this thread where he says as much) this guy was far past the working-long-hours phase - the company was mature and he stressed work life balance. i think mentioning stimulant abuse here is a little ... shitty of you, to be honest. some people just die young/young-ish of natural causes. i personally know several people who have had freak heart attacks or brain conditions a…

Generally places stress work life balance because the organization doesn't actually afford its members a work life balance, so the perception of it existing has to be constructed through propaganda. i.e. If you already have work life balance, there's not need to stress it.

This is completely wrong. In our area (Silicon Valley) it is common and expected to push hard and work long hours. It is an extremely competitive environment and unless you're forced to go home most people work late into the night.

Not making an effort and letting your employees know that you don't expect them to work nights and weekends means you are ignoring the societal norms in our field and most likely have engineers working their way towards burnout.

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by carbocation »

dhandel wrote: post #128
pen2l wrote: post #100

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I know of 2 guys who had a case of "sudden death" in the valley, both from heart attack, both were using stimulants and working very long hours in their startups. I know from previous threads that a lot of folks in the valley use stimulants to get through nights without sleep, to work with high focus, but guys you have to be careful. Stimulant use aside, keep in mind cardiovascular diseases is one of _the_ bigger kil…

I'm a retired radiologist with a huge experience performing coronary CT angiography (CCTA). This is an amazingly accurate exam, superior to cardiac catheterization and stress tests. Radiation dose from this exam has been dramatically reduced in recent years, Having seen thousands of these studies I can state that many people have severe coronary artery disease at young ages (in their thirties). They are at risk for s…

We often use coronary CTA to rule out coronary disease in low risk chest pain, but I can't say I would recommend it as a routine test due to the radiation and the dye load. We know that the fatty streak begins in childhood and it must be true that there is a lot of clinically undetected coronary disease. When it comes to sudden cardiac death for a young man, I'd also be concerned about electrical abnormalities such as the Brugada syndrome / channelopathies / accessory pathway syndromes. Drug use is another important factor in general, not that I would think it to be relevant here.

May the family of the deceased find peace.

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by wiggumz »

rrtwo wrote: post #8

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

Is there any chance of foul play?

Heart attacks can be induced, and usually there is someone around who knows CPR so this seems odd. People don't usually die from Heart attacks these days, especially not people who Have enough money to get excellent healthcare.

Was there anything Goldberg was doing that was in any way connected to the spooks?

Or could the US government have killed him in order to ensure compliance from someone close to Goldberg like the Facebook CEO?

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by joshu »

larrys wrote: post #40
joshu wrote: post #21

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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 w…

I wasn't being helpful. I was being insulting. I hope you consider taking this response the same way.

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by tallerholler »

dhandel wrote: post #128
pen2l wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know of 2 guys who had a case of "sudden death" in the valley, both from heart attack, both were using stimulants and working very long hours in their startups. I know from previous threads that a lot of folks in the valley use stimulants to get through nights without sleep, to work with high focus, but guys you have to be careful. Stimulant use aside, keep in mind cardiovascular diseases is one of _the_ bigger kil…

I'm a retired radiologist with a huge experience performing coronary CT angiography (CCTA). This is an amazingly accurate exam, superior to cardiac catheterization and stress tests. Radiation dose from this exam has been dramatically reduced in recent years, Having seen thousands of these studies I can state that many people have severe coronary artery disease at young ages (in their thirties). They are at risk for s…

If I have a CCTA test done and it shows early signs of heart disease, what can I do about it? I am 31 healthy, eat relatively good, exercise everyday, don't drink or do drugs. I'm just wondering what you can even really do? Are there (or will there be) drugs that can dissolve the hardened fat (and whatever else) in your arteries?

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by chime »

papasmrf wrote: post #97
chime wrote: post #50

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My thought are with Dave's family. It's a morbid coincidence that I was sitting here, filling out my will using http://getyourshittogether.org/ when I came across this HN post. I had been avoiding filling it out for months because it never felt important enough to do. Finally last night I decided that I was going to fill it all out today. Just as I started to fill it out, I thought "Oh let me just check HN and reddit…

As an estate lawyer, the biggest issue I see with these types of estate plan services is that amateurs use them and fuck up their documents. Either they execute the documents incorrectly (in which case you might as well not have it), they let beneficiaries serve as witnesses, the documents don't plan for obvious contingencies, or they set up trusts and then neglect to transfer any assets to them (in which case the tr…

I should have clarified that I'm going to a lawyer once I gather all of my data. There's no way I can use the above template because it's customized for the State of Washington and I'm in Florida. Starting with a free template helps me create a plan and collect the bulk of the material even before I meet someone. Hopefully if I do my homework, then I'm not wasting the attorney's time on basic questions and can use that for clarification on some of the more complex issues.

Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

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Post by meepmorp »

wiggumz wrote: post #174
rrtwo wrote: post #8

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

Is there any chance of foul play? Heart attacks can be induced, and usually there is someone around who knows CPR so this seems odd. People don't usually die from Heart attacks these days, especially not people who Have enough money to get excellent healthcare. Was there anything Goldberg was doing that was in any way connected to the spooks? Or could the US government have killed him in order to ensure compliance fr…

> Or could the US government have killed him in order to ensure compliance from someone close to Goldberg like the Facebook CEO?

Are you seriously not aware how crazy this sounds to other people?

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