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- B.S. in Computer Science, University of Florida, 1989
- MBA, University of Texas, 1993
- Covered Dell, Compaq and Microsoft as an analyst
- Writes the Above the Crowd newsletter
- Invested in Jamdat, Business.com, Nordstrom.com and Shopping.com
- Investor in the virtual world Second LifeAustralian Broadcasting Corporation: Interview with Bill Gurley (March 19, 2007)
- 1995-1996: Part of the Institutional Investor All-American Research Team
- Chartered financial analyst
- Advisory Board, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas
- June 19, 2008: First public blog post in over two yearsAbove the Crowd: Back to Blogging (maybe)... (June 19, 2008)
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Bill Gurley is a venture capitalist currently working for the firm Benchmark Capital. Before becoming an investment banker, Gurley spent four years as a research analyst on Wall Street, which included three years at investment bank CS First Boston. He has also authored Above the Crowd, a newsletter that reports on the technology sector.
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"Not Your Typical Venture Capitalist"Business Week: [http://www.businessweek.com/1997/34/b354154.htm Bill Gurley Profile] (August 25, 1997)
Business Week interviewed Gurley in 1997, shortly after he left Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Technology Group (DMG) as a financial analyst to become a venture capitalist for Hummer Winblad. In the article, Business Week details Gurley's past as a Division I basketball player for the University of Florida (he stands 6' 9") and his interest in technology that earned him a B.S. in engineering from the college in the late 1980s.Gurley was at DMG when Amazon.com went public and made accurate predictions about the downturn in Netscape stock.
Current InvestmentsAbove the Crowd: [http://abovethecrowd.com/about/ About page]
- Linden Labs/Second Life
- LiveOps
- Move Networks
- Nanosolar
- OpenTable
- Red 5 Studios
- Tropos Networks
- VUDU
- Zillow.com
Past InvestmentsAbove the Crowd: [http://abovethecrowd.com/about/ About page]
- Avamar Technologies
- Business.com
- Crossgain
- Employease]
- JAMDAT
- Nordstrom.com
- Shopping.com
- The Knot
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Bill Gurley Questions
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Do you worry about paying your bills? 1 AnswerSurprisingly I don't worry about paying our bills even though our income is low. Since we've paid off all our credit cards, we have enough to pay all our bills,... read more -
Do you ignore bills and put them in basket? 3 AnswersCurrently theres a couple i run away from and there are those that of course I can't. Bills you just cant run away from cuz they bite you in the butt: 1) Phon... read more
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Have you paid off your medical bills? 4 AnswersI overpaid my first big bill. The hospital called implying (though not directly stating) that if I didn't prepay, my surgery might not be allowed to go through.... read more
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Bill Gurley Professional Profile
- Current Projects:
- Partner, Benchmark Capital
- Investor, Second Life
- Past Projects:
- Board of Directors Member, Red 5 Studios
- Board of Directors Member, LindenLab
- Board of Directors Member, Tropos Networks
- Board of Directors Member, Jamdat
- Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
- Investor, PlanetAll
- Analyst, CSFB
- LinkedIn Profile: Bill Gurley
- Profile: Bill Gurley at Benchmark Capital
- Blog: Above the Crowd
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Bill Gurley on the “Free” Business Model - http://is.gd/52Ac3
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RT @twbell: "A disruptive play of a magnitude heretofore unseen" Bill Gurley on Google and Nav Disruption: http://bit.ly/2VWxTj
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RT @mkapor Bill Gurley explains Google's big disruption of the geo-data market http://bit.ly/4wnwn3. The "less-than-free" business model.
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HealthLaw Less Than Free: VC Bill Gurley has up an insightful piece on the strategy behind Google'.. http://bit.ly/2QloNs
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* Bill Gurley says: Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model: http://tinyurl.com/yzqjmkq
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