Who in their right mind, except for the utterly desperate, would accept money from Benchmark? Talk about letting the fox into the henhouse, you can't trust those guys whatsoever.
You're fucking high if you think any VC is going to choose to protect their "founder-friendly" reputation over their $9BB investment. Any institutional investor would be making the exact same decisions as benchmark here.
Care to provide details ? I don't live in the valley so i'm not up to date with the latest gossip. Last time i heard about this firm, it was pretty complimentary