Bill Gurley

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.

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.

• Linden Labs/Second Life
• LiveOps
• Move Networks
• Nanosolar
• OpenTable
• Red 5 Studios
• Tropos Networks
• VUDU
• Zillow.com

• Avamar Technologies
• Business.com
• Crossgain
• Employease]
• JAMDAT
• Nordstrom.com
• Shopping.com
• The Knot

• 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
  • About Bill Gurley