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Stanford , Ph.D., Masters 2008
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Berkeley, BS
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Ben Ling

Benjamin leads the monetization efforts of YouTube at Google.

He previously worked at Facebook, where he oversaw product marketing, developer operations and partner solutions for the Facebook Platform. He came to Facebook from Google in the Fall of 2007, and decided to return to the company in August of 2008.

In his first stint at Google, Benjamin was the Product Management Director of Checkout, where he founded and led Google Checkout and oversaw Google Product Search. He managed a cross functional team that included product, engineering, sales, marketing, operations, finance and legal.

Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
ChickRx 12/11Seed2
GAIN Fitness 12/11Seed$650k4
Fab 8/11Series A$7.7M18
Chirply 4/11Seed$1.1M18
Everlane 4/11Seed$1.1M10
aDealio 3/11Angel$500k5
Formative Labs 10/10Angel5
BranchOut 9/10Series A$6M16
Udemy 8/10Seed$1M11
Palantir Technologies 6/10Series D$90M6

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  2. GAIN Fitness Raises $650K From Keith Rabois, YouTube & Google Angels For Personal Training 2.0 (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Ashton Kutcher-Backed Fab.com Closes $7.7 Million (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  4. Crowd-Sourced Design Startup Chirply Raises $1.1 Million, Launches Redesign (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. Kleiner Perkins, SV Angel Back Personalized, Designer Quality E-Commerce Platform Everlane (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  8. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  9. TechCrunch - Udemy (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. Palantir: The Next Billion-Dollar Company Raises $90 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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