Bill Gurley
Bill Gurley
Bill Gurleyis a general partner at Benchmark, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California. He is listed consistently on the Forbes Midas List and is considered one of technology’s top dealmakers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth10 May 1966
CountryUnited States of America
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Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.
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I think one thing that may have happened with both Facebook and Zynga is that they may have waited too long to go public. They got particularly cute on that front.
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It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly estimate the future contribution.
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Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.
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Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.
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Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.
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Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.
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No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.
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There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now,
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You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction