{"id":7960,"date":"2008-06-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"facebook-guru-to-try-his-hand-at-alternative-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2008\/facebook-guru-to-try-his-hand-at-alternative-investments.html","title":{"rendered":"FaceBook Guru to Try His Hand at Alternative Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Matt Cohler, one of the early faces behind the wildly popular Facebook, will join venture capital firm Benchmark Capital.&nbsp; Cohler will assist in locating investment opportunities in web based services and will work with the company&rsquo;s portfolio businesses, all while continuing to work with Facebook. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Matt has set his sights extremely high, and at his young age has already helped to fundamentally change the face of the internet,&rdquo; says Benchmark general partner Peter Fenton.&nbsp; &ldquo;We could not be more thrilled to add Matt&#8217;s talents, relationships and passion to Benchmark.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Coming on board with Facebook in 2005, Matt joined Forbes&rsquo; &ldquo;Youngest Billionaire&rdquo; Mark Zuckerberg and enjoyed profits of $150 million last year.&nbsp; Facebook is estimated to be worth as much as $15 billion.&nbsp; Prior to that, he was the Vice President and General Manager of LinkedIn, another social networking site for business professionals. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Benchmark manages approximately $2.8 billion in assets. <\/p>\n<p>Julie Scuderi<br \/>Senior Editor for HedgeCo.Net<br \/>Email: julie@hedgeco.net<\/p>\n<p>HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on www.hedgeco.net is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!<br \/>Be sure to check out our sister sites. For more information, visit www.hedgeconetworks.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Matt Cohler, one of the early faces behind the wildly popular Facebook, will join venture capital firm Benchmark Capital.&nbsp; Cohler will assist in locating investment opportunities in web based services and will work with the company&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[532,303,281,526,110,661,664,374],"class_list":["post-7960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news","tag-april-29","tag-brokerages","tag-conglomerate","tag-contention","tag-due-diligence-service","tag-enterprise-investment-scheme","tag-relative-value","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}