>"How Dave Goldberg Built a Billion-Dollar Business and Still Gets Home By 5:30 PM"
The title is completely misleading.
A. It implies that Dave Goldberg is a founder of SurveyMonkey and built the company from the ground up. He didn't.
To quote the company website [1]:
In 2009, an investor group led by Spectrum Equity
Investors acquired the Company and appointed Dave
Goldberg CEO.
B. Furthermore, SurveyMonkey has been around since 1999 [2] when Goldberg has only joined in the last few recent years.
C. Lastly, SurveyMonkey is not a "Billian-Dollar" business, as the video states in OP link, they did $113M last year in revenue (which is greatly respectable) but a far cry from $1B.
SurveyMonkey has a $1Bn+ valuation. It's not the case that every description of a company as an "X billion dollar business" is referring to top-line revenue. To see why, just observe that no company with a working business model is ever sold for 1x forward revenue.
It's also worth noting that as fuzzy as valuation numbers often are, SurveyMonkey is currently doing the "providing liquidity to equityholders without doing an IPO" dance. They are well past the point where they could be getting their valuation from a publicly traded market cap. They're very probably worth what they say they are.
The title is completely misleading.
A. It implies that Dave Goldberg is a founder of SurveyMonkey and built the company from the ground up. He didn't.
To quote the company website [1]:
B. Furthermore, SurveyMonkey has been around since 1999 [2] when Goldberg has only joined in the last few recent years.C. Lastly, SurveyMonkey is not a "Billian-Dollar" business, as the video states in OP link, they did $113M last year in revenue (which is greatly respectable) but a far cry from $1B.
[1] http://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/aboutus/press/surveymonkey-ra... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SurveyMonkey