Word: cohler
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...Insiders say that Cohler's move was precipitated by Facebook's recent hire of Sheryl Sandberg as chief operating officer. Sandberg, who in March defected from rival Google, where she built up the search giant's sales operation, is said to have great operational chops. That, observers say, created some overlap with Cohler, who was among the first five employees hired at Facebook - and founder Mark Zuckerberg's first "outside" executive - when he joined the start...
...Cohler denied that Sandberg's hire had anything to do with his move: "Sheryl is a close friend of mine. Mark and I recruited her to the company together. There is zero operational overlap between what she does and I do at Facebook. We are very complementary...
...losing Cohler has got to be a real blow to the service. He's got tons of smarts and maturity and came to Facebook via LinkedIn, a social network for business users he helped Reid Hoffman, the legendary Silicon Valley entrepreneur, found. "He's the soul of Facebook," one Valley insider, who knows Cohler and works closely with Facebook, told me. "He is driving the service, the user experience. That's his thing...
...Cohler's stake in Facebook, a privately held company valued at $15 billion (thanks to Microsoft's minority investment last year), is likely vested by now. And he's not exactly leaving for a job in the Peace Corps. One of Benchmark's hallmarks is that all of its partners share in the wealth equally - a deviation from the typical star system at venture capital firms, where partners tend to be rewarded based on the deals they put together. The firm - which, with Cohler, now has nine partners - manages nearly $2.8 billion. Cohler said that another aspect of the novel...
...Cohler, a Yale graduate who studied Chinese history and worked in Beijing for a telecom company after graduation, comes from an entrepreneurial family. His maternal grandfather invented the ballpoint pen tip. "But he didn't make a penny off it - he sold the patent and died without a penny as an immigrant in East Harlem...