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Gokul Rajaram

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Background
  • "Godfather of Google AdSense" — grew AdSense from zero to over $1B revenue as Product Director (2003–2007)
  • Facebook Ads Product Lead — helped grow ad revenue from $750M to $6.5B, drove mobile-first transition
  • Square/Block executive — Product Engineering Lead
  • DoorDash — led Corporate Development and Strategy
  • Board member at Coinbase, Pinterest, and The Trade Desk
  • Co-founded Chai Labs (acquired by Facebook in 2010)
  • B.Tech CS from IIT Kanpur (Valedictorian), M.S. CS from UT Austin, MBA from MIT Sloan
Companies
Marathon Management Partners
Bay Area · Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, Series B
VC
Investment Focus
  • Fintech and enterprise software/SaaS
  • Developer infrastructure
  • Vertical AI applications
  • Productivity tools and marketplace platforms
  • Through Marathon: multi-stage software and fintech
Notable Investments
  • Airtable, Cockroach Labs, Coda, Figma, Postman, DigitalOcean (angel)
  • Groq (AI inference hardware), Runway (generative AI)
  • Boon (agentic AI for logistics — led $20.5M Series A via Marathon)
  • Niural (AI-native global PEO — $31M Series A via Marathon)
  • Angel portfolio also includes DoorDash, Faire, Poshmark, Rocket Money, CRED, Rubrik
AI Agent Relevance
  • Deep product leadership scaling platforms at Google, Facebook, Square, DoorDash — understands infrastructure at scale
  • Recent investments show strong AI conviction: Groq (inference hardware), Runway (generative AI), Boon (agentic AI for logistics)
  • Marathon is actively deploying into AI-native companies
  • Board seats at Coinbase, Pinterest, and The Trade Desk provide enterprise distribution network
  • Public email and accessible via Twitter — more reachable than most investors at his level
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