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Square COO Joins Khosla Ventures

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[Techtaffy Newsdesk]

Keith Rabois, the chief operating officer at Square, is joining Khosla Ventures as investor.

Mr. Rabois is a former PayPal, LinkedIn and Slide executive, and was also an angel investor in technology companies YouTube, Yammer, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Quora, Palantir, and Eventbrite.  

Vinod Khosla (on Keith Rabois): He truly has earned the right to advise companies.

Mr. Rabois currently holds board roles at Xoom, since June 2003, and Yelp, since September 2005.  He has a Political Science B.A. from Stanford University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. 

Square is a Khosla Ventures portfolio company.

[Image courtesy: Keith Rabois] 

 

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