Mike Vernal, a Fb VP who has spent the final eight-plus years on the firm, most just lately main its search, profile, native, and developer platform product teams, is leaving the corporate to turn out to be a enterprise capitalist at Sequoia Capital.
Earlier than becoming a member of Fb, Vernal spent almost six years at Microsoft, first as a product supervisor as later as a improvement lead.
The Harvard grad (two levels), wrote in a tweet this afternoon that “Fb is an distinctive firm with superb individuals. Thanks to Mark and everybody at @fb for the previous eight years. I’ll miss you.”
Fb is an distinctive firm with superb individuals. Thanks to Mark and everybody at @facebook for the previous eight years. I’ll miss you.
— Mike Vernal (@mvernal) April 18, 2016
Vernal joins 10 different companions in Sequoia’s Menlo Park workplace.
A type of companions is Bryan Schreier, who joined Sequoia in 2008 as a senior director at Google. In an e-mail offered to us by a Sequoia spokesman, Schreier writes that, “You don’t recruit individuals like Mike. They select you and we’re thrilled to have him be a part of.”
Schreier says the agency acquired to know Vernal by way of his work with fostering startups when he was main Fb’s platform initiatives. “His expertise scaling engineering, product, and design groups at Fb shall be invaluable to Sequoia founders working to construct equally transformative corporations.”
Like all Sequoia companions, Vernal is predicted to be one thing of a generalist nevertheless it’s doubtless he’ll be specializing in shopper and developer tech to start out.
Sequoia lately parted methods with one other longtime companion, Michael Goguen, when it was revealed that he was being accused of breach of contract in one of many extra explosive lawsuits to hit Silicon Valley shortly.
Sequoia’s West Coast companions are solely male, although it employs one feminine funding analyst, Stephanie Zhan, who has labored beforehand at Google, Andreessen Horowitz, and Nest Labs.
Sequoia’s chairman, Michael Moritz, was roundly criticized final yr, when throughout an interview with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang, he stated Sequoia is working exhausting to seek out extra ladies to rent into its ranks however that it isn’t prepared to lower its standards towards attaining that finish.
Sequoia Capital China has two feminine companions. Sequoia Capital India has additionally lengthy had one feminine investor and a feminine principal.
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