Marc Bodnick
{{short description|American entrepreneur and venture capitalist}}
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|birth_name = Marc Adam Bodnick
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|education = Harvard University (BA)
Stanford University
|known_for = Co-founding 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.
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.{{cite news|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/marc-bodnick-quora-2011-1|publisher=Business Insider|title=Meet Quora's New Grown-Up: Elevation Partners' Marc Bodnick|first=Dan|last=Frommer|date=January 26, 2011}} 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,{{cite news|work=San Jose Mercury News|title=Marc Bodnick, Facebook and Elevation Partner's social media success|author=Chris Obrien|date=January 8, 2011}} with a $210 million investment in Facebook and a $100 million investment in Yelp, Inc.{{cite news|publisher=Venture Beat|url=https://venturebeat.com/2011/01/25/marc-bodnick-leaving-elevation-partners/|date=January 25, 2011|title=Superstar Marc Bodnick leaving Yelp, Facebook investor Elevation Partners}}{{cite news|work=New York Times|url=http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/yelp-gets-a-five-star-review-from-elevation-partners/|date=January 27, 2010|title=Yelp Gets a Five-Star Review from Elevation Partners|author=Claire Cain Miller}} His sister-in-law, Sheryl Sandberg, was Chief Operating Officer of Facebook.{{cite news|work=Forbes|url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0907/power-women-09-facebook-sheryl-sandberg_2.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827132308/http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0907/power-women-09-facebook-sheryl-sandberg_2.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 27, 2009|title=Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg|author=Evan Hessel|date=September 7, 2009}}
=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.{{cite news|publisher=Venture Beat|title=Marc Bodnick opens up about his move to Quora — on Quora|first=Owen|last=Thomas|date=January 29, 2011|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUS115620791220110129}} In May 2016, he announced that he was leaving his position at Quora.{{cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/26/marc-bodnick/|publisher=TechCrunch|date=May 26, 2016|author=Josh Constine|title=Quora loses its public face, Marc Bodnick}}
=Telepath=
After leaving Quora, Bodnick co-founded Telepath.com, an interest-based social network. Telepath was in private beta for a time,{{Cite web|url=https://www.telepath.com/|title=Telepath|website=www.telepath.com|language=en|access-date=2018-12-21}} but the website is no longer available since 2022.
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