Gideon Yu, the former Facebook CFO unceremoniously shown the door in late March, has joined Khosla Ventures as a General Partner, we’ve heard from multiple sources.
Prior to Facebook, Yu has held positions at Yahoo (SVP Finance), YouTube (CFO) and, most recently, a short stint as a partner at Sequoia Capital. He is credited with being one of the main architects of the landmark $1.65 billion Google acquisition of YouTube in 2006.
Khosla Ventures has been in the news recently – they are raising another $1 billion to fund investments in a wide variety of startups (Internet, cleantech, mobile, fundamental science, etc.). A list of their investments is on their Crunchbase profile.
This is the second former Sequoia partner to join Khosla Ventures. Pierre Lamond joined the firm in March 2009.
Congrats. This is a great snag for Khosla and a good opportunity for Gideon. Best of luck.
Very nice resume. Congrats!
Run (don’t walk) as fast as you can from anything involving Pierre Lamond. He might be the most rotten person in the Silicon Valley. Trust me on this.
Wow~ Gideon Yu! This guy is cool!!
Yo Yo
Facebook should not have fired this guy. That was a mistake.
finally, a non-douche venture capitalist! gideon, i hope the venture world doesn’t change you!