He's the Silicon Valley venture capitalist millionaire who was employee number seven at Facebook, helped to launch LinkedIn and now sits on the board of Instagram and Tinder.
But for Matt Cohler, 42, the biggest windfall could still be to come as the Yale graduate looks likely to become an overnight billionaire - 11 times over - on the day Uber stocks go public.
The ride sharing app filed publicly with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for its initial public offering (IPO) Thursday, taking it a step closer to one of the largest technology stock listings of all time.
And that's good news for Cohler, who is Uber's largest shareholder with 11 per cent of the company. Estimates say he could be on track for up to $11 billion after the IPO.
Not that Cohler doesn't already have his fair share of wealth after being behind some of the most successful companies in the history of Silicon Valley.
The New Yorker, who once tried his hand at being a saxophonist and now lives with his Norwegian lawyer wife Pia Oien Cohler in San Francisco, made the Forbes The Midas List of top tech Investors in 2019, coming in at number 77.
Matt Cohler now lives with his Norwegian lawyer wife Pia Oien Cohler, pictured together, in San Francisco. They live a charmed life after getting engaged in 2015 and married a year later
Matt Cohler (left) sits with Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, in their office in Palo Alto, California, August, 26, 2005. He was the seventh full-time employee of the site and became vice president of product management before leaving in 2008 to go to Benchmark
The couple are said to have bought a $47.5 million Belvedere mansion with 270-degree views of San Francisco, the Golden Gate and Bay bridges in 2015
In 2016 he beat the likes of Beyonce, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Floyd Mayweather to be named the 23rd richest entrepreneur under 40 in America, according to Forbes, and was said to be worth $700 million in 2015.
His Twitter bio, where he has 40,000 followers, reads: 'Did: LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Uber, Tinder, Bitcoin. Didn't: Airbnb, Square, WhatsApp, Pinterest, Stripe, Coinbase, etc. TBD: the rest.'
It all means that Cohler and wife Pia already live a charmed existence after getting engaged in May 2015 and married the following year.
A 2015 Medium article said the couple bought a $47.5 million Belvedere mansion with 270-degree views of San Francisco, the Golden Gate and Bay bridges.
A year later The New York Times reported on the pair's sale of a four-bedroom mansion overlooking Gramercy Park in New York, on the market for $16.25 million.
The in 2018 they are said to have purchased a Manhattan penthouse listed for $35 million.
Pia, a trained lawyer from Norway, left Paris to be with Cohler four years ago and soon set up a luxury retail store in their new home city.
In 2018 the couple are said to have purchased a Manhattan penthouse listed for $35 million
Pia, a trained lawyer from Norway, left Paris to be with Cohler four years ago and soon set up a luxury retail store in their new home city. They are said to enjoy karaoke, board games, and paintball in their downtime
In 2016 Cohler, right, beat the likes of Beyonce, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Floyd Mayweather to be named the 23rd richest entrepreneur under 40 in America, according to Forbes , and was said to be worth $700 million in 2015. He is pictured here with Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz
She spoke with luxury magazine Haute Living about their life together in 2016 saying they
