Silicon Valley Legend Bill Gurley on Backing Uber and Betting Big
From Tommy Mello
Bill Gurley is a longtime Silicon Valley investor, entrepreneur, and thought leader on innovation, market dynamics, and career strategy. As a General Partner at Benchmark, he has backed iconic companies including Uber, Zillow, OpenTable, Grubhub, and Nextdoor, helping shape the modern internet economy. Before venture capital, Bill was a top-ranked Wall Street analyst covering Amazon’s IPO and began his career as a design engineer at Compaq. Known for his deep thinking on network effects, mark...
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- Todd Gurley (person)
- BHC Tommy (person)
- Uber (company)
- Benchmark (company)
- Running Down a Dream (book)
- OpenTable (company)
- Danny Meyer (person)
- Twitter (company)
- University of Texas (company)
- Rich Barton (person)
- Silicon Valley (location)
- New York, New York (location)
- Austin (location)
- Angela Duckworth (person)
- Bert Beverage (person)
- Gino Wickman (person)
- Victor Frankle (person)
- Daniel Pink (person)
- Chris Delcante (person)
- Bobby Knight (person)