Dave Goldberg

She was the chief operating officer of Meta, formerly Facebook, from 2008 to 2022.

Her husband, Dave Goldberg, died in 2015.

He had a heart arrhythmia and collapsed on a treadmill while they were vacationing in Mexico.

He was just 47 and their two kids were 10 and seven years old.

But her outlook changed, and two years later, she wrote a book with her friend, psychologist Adam Grant, called Option B, Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy.

Cheryl and I talk a lot about resilience in this podcast, and she has found joy again and love.

Her husband, Dave's brother, Rob, introduced her to Tom Bernthal, whom she married in 2022.

Rob even officiated their wedding.

So this other friend of mine who became my best friend, one of my best friends, um, he was an amazing guy.

He passed, um, but h-he, h-he-- his name was Dave Goldberg, and he was just like, um, you know, truly who he was.

And, um, to me, that's, that's, that's true wealth.

Um, succeeding on the what other people think is best, I, I question.

Sheryl served as chief operating officer of Meta, formerly Facebook, from 2008 to 2022.

Her husband, Dave Goldberg, died suddenly at 47 while they were vacationing in Mexico back in 2015.

Sheryl was 45 at the time.

Their two kids were 10 and 7.

She would've certainly been a millionaire at this point.

So in 2004, a few months after she married fellow tech boss Dave Goldberg, and the year she moved into that sprawling mansion in Atherton, California, the neighborhood Forbes Magazine would soon name the US's most expensive zip code, we can safely say that Sheryl Sandberg was a millionaire.

[upbeat music] But let us find out how she went swiftly from a million to a thousand times that to a billion.

By the time she left Google, the company was the USA's fifth-biggest company with a market cap of over two hundred billion dollars.

And alongside the book, Sheryl also launched the Lean In Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering women and girls to achieve their ambitions and creating equal and inclusive workplaces.

So come twenty fifteen, everything was looking rosy for Sheryl Sandberg, but this is when tragedy struck.

Her husband, Dave Goldberg, died suddenly and shockingly in a freak accident in a gym while on a family holiday in Mexico.

When exercising on a treadmill, Dave had fallen and suffered a fatal head injury.

And thank you and Jason for doing this and for you showcasing it.

My unfortunate connection to this is that my brother and I and a number of our friends were on vacation for a friend's 50th birthday, another bestie, Phil Deutsch.

And in the afternoon, we saw him.

We were all hanging out by the pool.

And, you know, top medical, concierge doctors.

He had actually passed, so this is a really important point.

So my brother had passed a running EKG five months before he dropped dead from heart disease, from undiagnosed heart disease.

Unfortunately, EKGs have a 4%, either false positive or false negative, where...