Matt Cohler is an American venture capitalist based in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...

. He worked as Vice President of Product Management for Facebook

Facebook

Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...

 until June 2008 and is currently a general partner at Benchmark Capital

Benchmark Capital

Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm responsible for the early stage funding of some very successful startups. In 1997, the firm invested $6.7 million in eBay, which became worth more than $5 billion by the spring of 1999. Other high-profile investments include Ariba, Juniper Networks, Red...

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Cohler was one of the first five employees hired at Facebook

Facebook

Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...

 and worked with the team during many of its critical growth phases. He continues to act as a
"special advisor" to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for co-creating the social networking site Facebook, of which he is chief executive and president...

. Prior to Facebook, Cohler was Vice President and General Manager at LinkedIn

LinkedIn

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 and was a member of the founding team. At LinkedIn, Cohler was considered CEO Reid Hoffman

Reid Hoffman

Reid G. Hoffman is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Hoffman is best known as the co-founder of LinkedIn, a social network used primarily for business connections and job searching.-Early education and career:...

's right-hand man. Cohler also worked in China and was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company

McKinsey & Company

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. On August 24, 2011, Cohler announced that he will join the board of the newly for-profit community website CouchSurfing

CouchSurfing

CouchSurfing International Inc. is a corporation based in San Francisco that offer its users hospitality exchange and social networking services. It is a for-profit private corporation, planning to go public. With more than 3 million profiles in 246 countries and territories, CouchSurfing has an...

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