Thursday, May 23, 2013

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Former Badoo COO and ex-Googler Ben Ling has joined Khosla Ventures, according to sources. Ling, who has held senior operations roles for a number of big companies in the mobile and internet space, has been added to a growing team at Vinod Khosla’s venture firm.

Ling most recently served as COO of Badoo, where he was hired to oversee product, engineering, partnerships, and business operations at the company. Ling joined Badoo in May 2012, but he only lasted about six months, leaving the company last fall.

Prior to Badoo, Ling spent a number of years at Google, where his last role included overseeing images, videos, books, news, and finance as its senior director of search products and local business products. At YouTube, Ling was senior director of partnerships and platform, where he was responsible for music, movies, sports, news, in addition to mobile, TV, and API partnerships. In his first role at Google, he oversaw the company’s e-commerce products, including Google Checkout and Product Search.

At Facebook, he served as the director of Facebook Platform, working on developer relations at the fledgling social network. There he helped build Facebook Connect, which is the social network’s hook into a number of third-party websites.

In addition to his senior operations roles, Ling has also been an active angel investor and advisor to startups. Recent investments include Fab.com, Palantir, Square, PracticeFusion, and Quora. Ling has also held an advisory position at Pinterest and Pulse.

Ling isn’t the only operations specialist to join Khosla Ventures. His hire comes just a few months after former Square COO Keith Rabois joined the firm.


Ryan Lawler 24 May, 2013


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Source: http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/23/ex-googler-ben-ling-brings-his-operations-experience-to-khosla-ventures/
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