Benchmark Capital keeps hiring — adds four more professionals

Benchmark Capital keeps hiring — adds four more professionals

Benchmark Capital, the respected Silicon Valley venture capital firm that backed eBay, continues a hiring spree: It has just hired three new entrepreneurs-in-residence, and an executive-in-residence.

And it could herald a new model for the way VCs work in Silicon Valley: By outsourcing, or perhaps more accurately, insourcing.

The new appointees include Rob Bearden (top left), who was a senior executive at JBoss, Red Hat and OpenSpan; Lewis Cirne (top right), founder of Wily Technology; Dan Finnigan… Continue Reading