Matt Cohler was born on March 27,1977 and is an American venture capitalist.
12 Facts About Matt Cohler
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Matt Cohler worked as Vice President of Product Management for Facebook until June 2008 and was formerly a general partner at Benchmark.
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Matt Cohler made the Forbes 'America's 40 Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40' list in 2015.
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Matt Cohler befriended Reid Hoffman and went on to become a founding member of Hoffman's startup LinkedIn.
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Matt Cohler was vice president and general manager at LinkedIn and was considered CEO Hoffman's right-hand man.
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Matt Cohler was one of the first five employees hired at Facebook.
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Matt Cohler was Facebook's vice president of product management and worked with the team during many of its critical growth phases.
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Matt Cohler continued to act as a "special advisor" to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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At Benchmark, Matt Cohler has backed the firm's investments in Dropbox, Asana, Quora, Greenhouse, Domo, Tinder, Duo Security, DeepL, Edmodo, ResearchGate, 1stdibs, Peixe Urbano, CouchSurfing, Baixing, and Zendesk.
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Matt Cohler sits on the boards of Asana, Quora, ResearchGate, and 1stdibs.
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Matt Cohler later left the Uber board in July 2019, at the same time as Arianna Huffington.
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Matt Cohler is vice president of the San Francisco Symphony board of governors, board trustee at Environmental Defense Fund, and a member of the endowment investment committees at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Yale Investments Office.