Yahoo Finance Silicon Valley CEO Died After 'Treadmill Slip'
The husband of author and Facebook (NasdaqGS: FB - news) executive Sheryl Sandberg died after hitting his head when he fell off a treadmill, it is believed.
David Goldberg, who was CEO of SurveyMonkey, was exercising in a gym at a holiday resort in Mexico when he collapsed on Friday, an official familiar with what happened told AP.
Efforts to revive Mr Goldberg, who was on holiday with family and friends, were unsuccessful.
It is not known whether Ms Sandberg, Facebook's Chief Operating Officer, was on holiday with her husband at the time.
His official cause of death has been revealed as severe head trauma and hypovolemic shock, or bleeding.
He was found lying next to a treadmill at the Four Seasons Resort Punta Mita, near Puerto Vallarta.
The Silicon Valley executive, whose company runs an online service for people who want to conduct questionnaires and polls, was 47.
His company and family members confirmed his death on Saturday (Shenzhen: 002291.SZ - news) but they did not give a cause of death, leading to widespread speculation.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was among those who paid tribute to Mr Goldberg over the weekend.
The Mexican official, who cannot be named, said Mr Goldberg left his room at about 4pm to exercise.
Later, when he did not return, family members went to look for him and found him at about 6.30pm in one of the resort's gymnasiums.
He was lying in a pool of blood, with an injury to the lower back of his head.
The Mexican official said he apparently had slipped on the treadmill and hit the machine.
Mr Goldberg was showing signs of life when he was discovered, but he later died at a hospital in Nuevo Vallarta, the official said.
The family had checked into the exclusive resort on 30 April.
Rooms there start at $500 (£330) a night and villas go for up to $5,000 (£3,300) a night.
Mr Goldberg had been married to Ms Sandberg, 45, since 2004.
She is worth an estimated $1bn but became famous beyond the tech world through her best-selling book Lean In, which aimed to show that women could reach the highest levels of corporate success while having a family.
In 2012, she was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time (Xetra: 17T.DE - news) magazine and the ninth most powerful woman in the world by Forbes last year.
In her book, which has sold more than two million copies, Ms Sandberg wrote of the adjustments she and her husband had to make to manage two high-profile careers while raising two children.
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS - news) moved the announcement of its earnings to Tuesday morning to allow executives to attend Mr Goldberg's funeral.
Many of those who have paid tribute are those at the top of the world's biggest tech firms.
