Inside Iconiq Growth, one of Silicon Valley’s most mysterious venture capital funds that just closed a $5.8B startup war chest

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The sudden death of former SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg in a treadmill accident nine years ago shook Iconiq Capital founder Divesh Makan. He had first met Goldberg and his wife, former Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, in 2002, when all three of them were still “nobodies,” as Makan puts it. 

“It was the first real death that I had in my life,” Makan told Fortune in an interview. “It was the first death I felt.”