Marc Bodnick

Marc Bodnick is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist, best known as a co-founder of Elevation Partners.

Bodnick earned a bachelors degree in government at Harvard University and a masters in political science at Stanford University.

Bodnick was a founding principal of Silver Lake Partners. He also worked at Blackstone Group. 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, by leading a total of $210 million of investment in Facebook (where his sister-in-law Sheryl Sandberg, is Chief Operating Officer) and a $100 million investment in Yelp, Inc.

In early 2011 he was recruited to become an executive at Quora, a question-and-answer website, after he joined as the site's 137th member. A friend of the founders, he had received an invitation to become a closed beta user after running into a company executive at a party). He had became obsessed with asking and answering questions on a wide range of nontechnical subjects such as films, and served as an informal advisor to the site throughout 2010.  Upon his departure from Elevation, there was a reported dispute over his entitlement to a share of the Elevation partnership's gains in the Facebook stock it held.