Benjamin Ling Biography

Ben Ling is an Investment Partner at Khosla Ventures where he is focused on mobile and Internet marketplace consumer health and data businesses. He is an accomplished executive and angel investor with senior operating roles at Google YouTube Facebook and Badoo. His personal investments include Square Palantir Quora and PracticeFusion Fab DogVacay and he holds advisory roles at Pinterest and Pulse.At Google he was Google’s Senior Director of Search Products and Local Business Products including overseeing Images Videos Books News and Finance. At YouTube he was Senior Director of Partnerships and Platform responsible for Music Movies Sports News as well as Mobile TV and API partnerships. In his first role at Google Ben was the founder and GM of Google’s Commerce group including Google Wallet and Shopping.At Facebook Ben was Director of Facebook Platform overseeing the Facebook developer ecosystem and led product marketing developer operations partner solutions and helped build Facebook Connect which has helped Facebook grow across the web.Ben holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration from UC Berkeley.

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