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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10 people come up, including Todd Gurley, BHC Tommy, Danny Meyer.
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- Danny Meyer (Person)
- Rich Barton (Person)
- Victor Frankle (Person)
- Chris Delcante (Person)
- Bobby Knight (Person)
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- Uber (Company)
- Benchmark (Company)
- Running Down a Dream (Book)
- OpenTable (Company)
- Twitter (Company)
- Silicon Valley (Location)
- University of Texas (Company)
- Austin (Location)
- New York, New York (Location)
- Bali (Location)
- Houston (Location)
- Los Angeles (Location)
- Manhattan (Location)
- Madison (Location)
- San Francisco (Location)
- Europe (Location)
- China (Location)
- North America (Location)
- Stoicism (Concept)
- First Principles Thinking (Concept)