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
venture venture-capital partners
Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.
marketing lines bigs
Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.
way valleys silicon-valley
Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.
greedy ends fearful
No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.
valleys no-fear right-now
There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now,
argued jeff marc nor public reed
I have never seen Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, or Reed Hastings complain about being public. Nor have they ever argued that being public prevented them from doing things with a long-term focus.
making-money predictions accurate
You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction
past years community
Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.