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The Matt Cohler Exit Interview

Posted on June 20, 2008

Early Facebook executive Matt Cohler announced his departure today to join top tier venture fund Benchmark Capital. I spent nearly half an hour this afternoon talking to him about his decision to join Benchmark Capital, his predictions for Facebook and a variety of topics that we touched on via various non sequiturs. Joining us was Benchmark Capital General Partner Bill Gurley as well.This was a surprising move in many ways. Cohler was definitely one of the inside guys at Facebook, gets along well with new COO Sheryl Sandberg, and wasn t generally expected to leave. But as he says belo...

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