Gideon is currently a General Partner at Khosla Ventures. Previously, Gideon was the Chief Financial Officer of Facebook, where he led the $375 million investment round from Microsoft and Hong-Kong billionaire Li Ka Shing at a record $15 billion valuation. Before that, Gideon was a Partner at Sequoia Capital, and was also the Chief Financial Officer at YouTube where he negotiated its $1.65 billion sale to Google amidst a highly competitive auction for the company.

Prior to YouTube, Gideon was the Treasurer and Senior Vice President of Finance for Yahoo, executing over 30 acquisitions / investments, including Alibaba / Taobao, Overture, Inktomi, Flickr, and del.icio.us and over $5 billion of capital markets transactions, including $750 million in zero coupon / zero yield convertible notes - Yahoo’s first financing since its IPO. Prior to Yahoo, Gideon was the Chief Financial Officer of NightFire Software (acquired by NeuStar, NYSE: NSR) and held positions at Disney, Hilton, and DLJ / CSFB.

Gideon graduated from Stanford University majoring in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Gideon is also very active philanthropically and serves on the Board of Directors of the UCSF Medical Foundation.

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Gideon Yu invested in Cloudera. (3/16/09)

Posted 3/16/09 at 7:30am
Gideon Yu invested in Vobile. (11/1/07)

Posted 11/14/07 at 6:03am
Gideon Yu added a position as Treasurer and Senior Vice President of Finance at Yahoo!.

Posted 3/25/08 at 2:53pm
Gideon Yu added to The Walt Disney Company.

Posted 3/25/08 at 2:57pm
Gideon Yu added a position as CFO at YouTube.

Posted 3/25/08 at 2:51pm
Gideon Yu added a position as CFO at Facebook.

Posted 8/15/07 at 10:29pm
Gideon Yu added a position as Partner.

Posted 8/25/09 at 9:35am
Gideon Yu added a position as General Partner.

Posted 8/25/09 at 11:13am