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The Rush Out To VCs: Facebook's Cohler Joins Benchmark

This story was written by Rafat Ali.


This is the month of senior executives leaving the starts and big media and Internet companies: just yesterday the CEOs of Hearst and Hachette were circled out on the east coast. Meanwhile, on the west coast, Yahoo's (NSDQ: YHOO) bleeding all over and now Facebook sees its VP of Product Management Matt Cohler, one of the earliest hires, leaving the company. He is joining to Benchmark Capital as a partner, reports ATD. But he is not cutting off his ties with Fbook completely: he will continue as a "special advisor" to Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and to its senior management team. Is this Sheryl Sandberg cleaning house?


By Rafat Ali

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