Name Marc Bodnick Education Harvard University | ||
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Similar Adam D'Angelo, David S Rose, Yishan Wong, Charlie Cheever, Jimmy Wales | ||
Organizations founded Elevation Partners | ||
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Marc Adam Bodnick (born May 17, 1969) is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist, best known as a co-founder of Elevation Partners.
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Education
Bodnick earned a bachelor's degree in government at Harvard University and a master's degree in political science at Stanford University.
Employment
Bodnick is a founding principal of Silver Lake Partners. He also worked at Blackstone Group and Kroll. In 2003, he co-founded Elevation Partners, along with Bono and a number of Silicon Valley investors and executives. As Managing Director, he was credited with reversing the poor performance of the fund's first fund, with a $210 million of investment in Facebook and a $100 million investment in Yelp, Inc. His sister-in-law, Sheryl Sandberg, is Chief Operating Officer of Facebook.
Quora
In early 2011, Bodnick was recruited to lead the business and community team at Quora, a question-and-answer website founded by Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever, after becoming an early beta tester and contributor. In May 2016, he announced that he was leaving his position at Quora.