Facebook's No. 5 employee to join Benchmark Capital

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Thu, 06/19/2008 - 1:00pm

Matt Cohler, employee No. 5 at Facebook, will leave the high-flying social network this fall to join venture firm Benchmark Capital as its youngest general partner at 31 years old.

Matt Cohler

Matt Cohler

(Credit: Dan Farber/CNET News.com)

Cohler, whose job description, as written on Facebook, is "ensuring that Zuck (...


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