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Gokul Rajaram

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Gokul Rajaram is Product Director, Ads at Facebook. In this role, he drives the product roadmap and execution for Facebook’s advertising products.

Before Facebook, Gokul was Co-Founder and CEO of Chai Labs, a semantic technology startup he grew to profitability and a multi-million dollar annual revenue run-rate before its acquisition by Facebook.

Earlier in his career, Gokul was Product Management Director for Google AdSense. He helped conceive and crystallize the product in early 2003, and played a key role in its launch and growth from 2003 onwards into a multi-billion dollar product line. Gokul was also product lead for a number of acquisitions for Google, including DoubleClick (display advertising/ad serving), AdScape (in-game advertising) and dMarc (radio advertising).

Previously, Gokul worked as a software engineer and technical lead at Juno Online, an early free e-mail provider ISP in New York (later merged with NetZero to form United Online), where he developed the back-end advertising system that drove much of Juno’s revenues and helped it go public in 1999.

Gokul holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, a MS in CS from UT Austin, and a B. Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur, where he received the President’s Gold Medal for being Class Valedictorian

Recent Milestones

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  Gokul Rajaram invested in Hullabalu. (6/6/13)
  Posted 6/6/13 at 9:16am via techcrunch.com
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  Gokul Rajaram invested in Buffer. (12/20/11)
  Posted 12/20/11 at 7:03pm via bufferapp.com
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  Gokul Rajaram invested in iDoneThis. (12/1/11)
  Posted 8/7/12 at 1:16pm via pandodaily.com
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  Gokul Rajaram added a position as Advisor at Vungle. (10/1/11)
  Posted 10/21/11 at 11:45pm
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  Gokul Rajaram added a position as Advisor at Feedgen. (1/1/11)
  Posted 3/24/11 at 8:53pm
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  Gokul Rajaram added a position as Executive Chairman at Course Hero. (11/18/10)
  Posted 3/21/10 at 9:12pm
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  Gokul Rajaram added a position as Product Director Ads at Facebook. (9/5/10)
  Posted 2/5/13 at 9:16am
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  Gokul Rajaram added a position as Advisor at SkillSlate. (7/1/10)
  Posted 7/20/10 at 11:34am
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  Gokul Rajaram — Gokul Rajaram Joins SkillSlate Advisory Board. (6/1/10)
  Posted 10/20/10 at 6:25am via skillslate.com
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  Gokul Rajaram added a position as Board of Directors at Buysight. (5/13/10)
  Posted 5/15/10 at 7:10pm
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  Gokul Rajaram added a position as Advisor at MyLikes. (4/13/10)
  Posted 4/27/10 at 12:48pm
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  Gokul Rajaram — Gokul Rajaram Joins Associated Content Board of Directors. (12/17/09)
  Posted 12/17/09 at 4:32pm via marketwire.com
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  Gokul Rajaram added a position as Co-Founder and CEO at Chai Labs. (12/1/07)
  Posted 3/31/08 at 9:48pm
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  Gokul Rajaram added a position as Product Management Director, Adsense at Google. (1/1/03)
  Posted 3/31/08 at 9:48pm
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  Gokul Rajaram added a position as Technical Lead, Advertising Systems at Juno Online Services. (1/1/97)
  Posted 6/14/13 at 5:30am
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  Gokul Rajaram added a position as Advisor at Cinemacraft. (12/15/00)
  Posted 2/10/13 at 2:26pm

Investments

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Joins Associated Content Board of Directors (marketwire.com) [edit]
Joins Advisory Board to SkillSlate (skillslate.com) [edit]
1. To Spark Children’s Imaginations, Hullabalu Raises $1.8 Million From SV Angel, Great Oaks & Others For iPad Storytelling App (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Buffer Raises $400K To Help Schedule Your Twitter Blasts (blog.bufferapp.com) [edit]
3. iDoneThis Raises $380,000 in Angel Funding (pandodaily.com) [edit]