Bill Gurley
General Partner, Benchmark · 3 appearances on the record, plus 3 compilation re-airs.
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Bill Gurley is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist best known for Benchmark’s landmark early investment in Uber, alongside backing companies such as OpenTable, Zillow, Grubhub, and Stitch Fix. Beyond investing, he authors the long-running tech analysis blog Above the Crowd, co-hosts the BG2 Pod with Brad Gerstner, and is an author.
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5 predictions · 20 assertions · 8 opinions · 27 insights · 8 disclosures · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 25 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 17 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 7 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.
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host pushback: the hardest questions Harry asked, tap to play ▶ 9:36“It was interesting, Keith Raboy actually said on a different podcast that the only firm to have retained price discipline, the only firm, was Benchmark. How do you feel about that?” ▶ 7:03“Can I ask where it doesn't matter? Do you still want to get involved?” ▶ 17:59“Why do you think that is when so much of the industry is predicated on ownership percentage?” ▶ 13:24“When you've bent your own rules on price, have you subsequently been pleased and they have turned out to be the best deals, or have they not, and you've actually gone, we did pay t…” ▶ 4:04“Can I ask, where it doesn't matter, do you still want to get involved?” ▶ 19:53“Would you say the same on early stage and not lack of discipline, but, you know, being a little bit more flexible on price?”
when Bill pushed back ▶ 7:56“Well, part of why I was smiling so much when I said, okay, boomer Harry is like, we can sit here and complain or, or be worried about a reset or a bubble.” ▶ 16:19“I'm having to resist saying, okay, Boomer, to you, Harry, despite you being half my age. You sound like you're 50.”
Everything Bill Gurley said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
Gurley: IPOs popping 50% to 70% are far more expensive than SPACs
“You know, everyone says SPACs are expensive, but when your stock pops 50 to 70% in the IPO, that's way more expensive than a SPAC, and so it created this window.”
Gurley: Claims of Disrupting Traditional Venture Capital Have Been Proven False
“I think this whole notion that you're going to disrupt and fundamentally take over the business has just been proven false over and over again. AngelList is awesome, but it's not 20% of the industry, you know. Andreessen said, we're going to completely, you kn…”
Gurley: Capitalist benevolent dictatorships operate more efficiently than the US
“If you have a benevolent dictatorship attached to capitalism, you can actually fix problems faster and cause capitalism to, I think, achieve what it's meant to achieve in a much more efficient way than where we are in the US.”
Gurley: Only a fraction of VCs take board duties seriously
“If you look at all the venture dollars that are out there, I think the numbers that really take that role seriously is actually a small fraction of.”
Gurley: Public optimism from VCs is targeted founder marketing
“Any time a venture capitalist opens their mouth, they're probably sending a message to the founder they haven't met yet, and saying that it's going to be 30 years of wonderful glory, all roses, and no thorns, is certainly a better message than screaming, the s…”
Gurley: Trying to call the market top is a VC's biggest mistake
“I think you have to invest as a venture capitalist over the cycle, like, over a 20 or thirty-year period, and the biggest mistake you could possibly make is trying to call the top, and so, unfortunately, I think, you know, have a little, I call it the Thelma a…”
Gurley: Benchmark practices stage discipline, not price discipline
“I think he's misinterpreting price discipline for stage discipline. So we have notably stayed focused on early stage investing, whereas most people have moved to multi-stage. I think that makes the impression look like that your price discipline because you're…”
Gurley: Trying to call the market top is a VC's biggest mistake
“I think you have to invest as a venture capitalist over the cycle, like over a 20 or thirty-year period, and the biggest mistake you could possibly make is trying to call the top.”
Gurley: There Is No Such Thing as Conservative Venture Capital
“There's no such This thing is conservative venture. You don't take your cards off the table and maximize return. It never works.”
Bill Gurley: Tiger Global's late-stage strategy is meticulous and research-driven
“Having talked to Scott and understand what they're doing, it's very meticulous and Top down. Tons of research. They have a plan they're executing on, but that's provoking other people to lay chase”
Bill Gurley: Power-law returns make late-stage venture investors valuation-agnostic
“It's easy to become valuation agnostic to a certain extent, because you've seen, if you hit a winner, if you hit a snowflake, if you hit a Uber or whatever, it ends up being a hundred X more than where you are today, so you become indifferent.”
Gurley: 2021 tech market resembles 1999 dot-com bubble more than 2016
“Compared where we were to the dot-com bubble five years ago, and I have a little bit of a chicken little reputation issue here, but things are clearly more like 99 today than they were five years ago”
Gurley: Tiger Global's venture strategy is meticulous and research-driven
“Having talked to Scott and understand what they're doing, it's very meticulous and Top down. Tons of research.”
Gurley: Trying to call market tops is a venture investor's biggest mistake
“And so, I think you have to invest as a venture capitalist over the cycle, like, over a 20 or thirty-year period, and the biggest mistake you could possibly make is trying to call the top.”
Gurley: Nine-Month Venture Deployment Cycles Eliminate Portfolio Time Diversity
“I also think there's massive benefit to time diversity in a portfolio. Having lived through cycles before you spend a fund in nine months, you've got no time diversity on that.”
Gurley: Failing to pursue Google at 25 employees was my biggest mistake
“My biggest mistake was clear because I brought Larry and Sergey in to present when there were 25 employees, and we didn't lay chase.”
Gurley: Benchmark passed on Jack Dorsey's Series A pitch for Square
“Another one that's very similar, and it wasn't me, it was a different partner, but I don't think I was helpful, was Jack That brought Square to us on the A.”
Gurley: There is no such thing as conservative venture capital
“And so there's no such thing as conservative venture. You don't take your cards off the table and maximize return. It never works, and so you're forced to, you know, I've used this phrase before, but play the game on the field.”
Gurley: Near-zero interest rates break DCF models and drive market speculation
“Clearly the one thing that's different from the past 102 hundred years are near zero interest rates, maybe below zero real rates across the globe, and, you know, technically your DCF model just Blows up. It doesn't work, right? It doesn't solve. And at the ver…”
Gurley: SaaS valuation multiples of 20-40x revenue match 1999 bubble
“And we're seeing, you know, not since oh one, we're seeing unprecedented valuations, you know, these SAS companies, 20, 30, 40 times revenue, which hasn't happened since, since 99, 2000.”
Gurley: Conservative founders will be left behind by aggressive competitors
“Well, unfortunately, you are forced to play the game on the field. So if you act conservatively, and your two competitors act aggressively, you will be left behind.”
Gurley: Markets favoring growth over profits create massive company wrecks
“When the world is rewarding, aggressive growth, don't care about profitability, you're going to have a mix of end results. You're going to have some of the snowflakes in Amazons, and you're going to end up with a lot of wrecks on the, you know, massive wrecks.”
The other half of the tape: Bill Gurley's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 331 times in 131 episodes on 20VC. 18 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 161Jason Lemkin 21Chris Sacca 16Shervin Pishevar 12Rory O'Driscoll 8Aaron Hirschhorn 7Jason Calacanis 5Jamin Ball 5
Statements about Bill Gurley, by other people (18)
Pishevar: Bill Gurley was the wrong VC on Uber's board
“We had the wrong venture capitalists on the board. Unfortunately, in my opinion, it was Bill Gurley at Benchmark.”
Pishevar: Bill Gurley hired PIs and met weekly to oust Travis Kalanick
“We found out in our investigation that he hired Some private investigators had weekly meetings about how do we get rid of Travis.”
Asparouhov: Bill Gurley's firing of Travis Kalanick was morally depraved
“I wish that, you know, Bill Gurley's, you know, firing of Travis, you know, was, you know, sort of talked about more publicly about how morally depraved that entire basically situation was so that people can choose to opt into.”
O'Driscoll: Navan's IPO Proves Bill Gurley's Pricing Critique Is Wrong
“Actually, this actually shows that sometimes Bill Gurley is wrong because his idea is that these IPO share allocations are called free money. You get your IPO. It always goes up and the leaving value on the table. This is an example of an IPO where, you know, …”
Khan: Criticizing 20% to 50% IPO stock pops is misguided
“So I have great respect for Bill Gurley. He's a very, very smart guy incredibly talented, but this one thing I think he, I don't agree with him, you know I think he's over-focused on One day stock pricing. Ah, now listen, if the stock doubles, that's obviously…”
Emil Michael: Benchmark's Bill Gurley is a catastrophist who constantly fears crashes
“I believe he's a catastrophist. Catastrophists are one who the sky's always falling”
Howard Marks: Tech automation threatens long-term employment for manual laborers
“Longer term, I worry about employment, mainly because of the stuff Bill does. You know, his companies are replacing labor with computing power, to over-exaggerate. I worry about where people whose main asset is a strong back are going to get jobs in the longer…”
Geoffrey Woo: Uber Burned Tens of Billions on Paid Marketing
“I just saw that Bill Gurley was tweeting that you know, paid marketing is, like, the worst form of marketing, and I'm just like, hey, Uber, like, he's most well known for kicking out Travis from Uber, and Uber burnt, like, tens of billions of dollars on straig…”
Benchmark turned a $33M Uber investment into $10B in four years
“Bill Gurley was on our board, lost her nerve. And the reality is there's another economic principle called loss aversion, right? If you invest thirty three million dollars in Uber and it looks like ten billion four years later, ten billion on a thirty three mi…”
Sacca: Bill Gurley directly confronts founders in board meetings to instil discipline
“I've watched Bill Gurley knuckle up in board meetings and call bullshit, because that's the place it needs to get done, and if you don't build that rigor and discipline early on, you're not setting yourself up to be a world-class company”
Danny Rimer: Index Ventures Restructured Good Eggs After Other Investors Bailed
“The second one was, Good Eggs was an example of a company that we invested in. It basically went under. We had to restructure it. The other investors decided to bail. We brought in a new CEO who He, as Jeff Wiener talks about with Reid Hoffman, had a founding …”
Bill Gurley presented six vetted public CFO candidates at an Uber meeting
“We were in an early Uber board meeting once, and we needed a CFO. And I kind of, I, They said, okay, we need a CFO. And I stopped and I think, okay, like who could be a CFO? And I'm thinking of like old Google people who were like director of finance and maybe…”
Top VCs like Bill Gurley take more risk later in their careers
“Experienced venture capitalists and some of the most well-known venture capitalists, Bill Gurley, Doug Leone, Jim Getz, the further along they've got in their career, the more risk they take.”
Calacanis details early Uber investment alongside Bill Gurley and Shervin Pishevar
“I was the angel investor in Uber, Bill Gurley did the A round, Shervin did the B”
Mauboussin: Bill Gurley pioneered applying return on capital and increasing returns
“I think he's very early on understanding the importance of return on capital investment returns, cash flows, and he applied it right away. Very successfully, by the way, in investments. The second is he was very early on and understanding Brian Arthur's work o…”
Stitch Fix Reached Cash Flow Positivity in 3 Years on $42M Raised
“Prior to their IPO in 2017, Katrina raised just forty two million dollars in venture funding, from some of the very best in venture, including Bill Gurley at Benchmark and Steve Anderson at Baseline, and in just six years, Katrina took the company from foundin…”
Katrina Lake: Bill Gurley Foresaw Stitch Fix's Future Years in Advance
“Bill's been an incredible, incredible board member. I mean, he's added so much value to our board. There's so many instances where I look back and I'm like, Bill saw the future, you know, years before I saw it.”
Galston: Bill Gurley's 10 marketplace drivers essay is the absolute Bible
“The Bible here which I'm sure you've read the Bible here is, is Bill Gurley's kind of 10 marketplace drivers blog posts that he wrote in like, it's the absolute Bible. And if you want to even, you know, have like a working knowledge of digital marketplace busi…”
Every mention by year
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2026 21 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 61 mentions in 24 episodes 3 per episode
- Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Is a $4.5BN Exit Enough in VC? & Harvey Raises $150M & Why Google is a Buy and Amazon is a Sell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 16 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 51 mentions in 17 episodes 3 per episode
- Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Ed Sim & Jamin Ball: Did Figma Kill M&A Markets & 3 Requirements to IPO in 2024 | E1101 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Imran Khan: Why the IPO Market is Not Closed & Lessons From Taking Snap & Alibaba Public | E1194 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 11 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Roundtable #4 with Jason Lemkin, Woody Marshall, Deven Parekh, Harry Stebbings | E1071 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- DEBATE: State of Seed Investing w/ Jason Lemkin, Sam Lessin, Frank Rotman & Harry Stebbings | E1047 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 61 mentions in 19 episodes 3 per episode
- Michael Mauboussin: The Single Biggest Mistake Investors Make In Decision-Making | 20VC #945 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Kyle Harrison: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years | 20VC #940 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: The Memo: Chris Sacca on Why We Are Breeding a Generation of Entitled Assholes, Harley Finkelstein on What Great Fatherhood Really Means, Deena Shakir on How Kids Make You a Better Investor and Anne Wojcicki on How Children Change Your Approach to R
- Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 23 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Aleph's Michael Eisenberg on Why Generalists Over Specialists, Why Boutique Smaller Firms Over Multi-Stage Firms, Portfolio Construction Theory, Capital Concentration Limits and How To Think Through Reserve Allocations with Market Cycles in Mind?
- 20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
- 20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on The Single Question That Defines The Art of Early Stage Venture, Marketing Timing Risk, Why The Oversupply of Capital Is Good & His Biggest Lessons from 12 Years On The New Relic Board
- 20VC: NEA's Scott Sandell on SPACS and Why Liquidity is One of the Challenges of our Time, Why We Are At An Inflection Point For Secondaries & Why There Is Nothing To Suggest The Boom Will Not Continue
- 20VC: The Roblox Memo: First Round's Chris Fralic on The 17 Year Journey to Build a $41BN Market Cap Company, Why It Is Way Harder To Increase Ownership Across Rounds Today & What Happens Post SPACMania
- 20VC: Spotify Founder Daniel Ek on Optimising Decision-Making, Structuring Effective Learning Processes, The Trials and Tribulations in The Transition From Founder To CEO & The Future of Building Prima Materia with Shakil Khan
- 20VC: Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone on The 3 Stages of Wealth, The Return To Twitter in 2017 and the Associated Missions and Challenges & Why Silicon Valley is not an "Insiders Only" Universe?
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 43 mentions in 14 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Stitch Fix Founder Katrina Lake on Growth vs Profitability, Her Biggest Lessons From Working with Bill Gurley at Benchmark and The Importance of Mental Flexibility as a Leader
- 20VC: Raising A $1.35Bn Fund I, The Emerging Secondary Opportunity For Early Stage Managers and Founders & What It Takes To Win The Best Growth Deals Today with Ravi Viswanathan, Founder & Managing Partner @ NewView Capital
- 20VC: The Implications of a Biden vs a Trump Administration on Venture and Startups, How The Rise of Rolling Funds, SPACs and Solo Capitalists Will Impact Venture & What We Can Do To Swing the Race Pendulum in VC with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Ligh
- 20VC: 8VC's Joe Lonsdale on How To Foster Contrarian Thinking Within Venture Partnerships, Why The Best VCs Are Company Builders & Why It Is Not Possible To Build Multi-Billion Dollar Companies and Have Worklife Balance
- 20VC: Howard Marks on How COVID-19 Impacts Our Economy, Liquidity and National Debt, Why The Theory of Falling Knives and Market Bottoms is Wrong & Why The Best Investors Are Fundamentally Unemotional
- 20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Chasing GMV Will Lead To The Wrong Direction, The 2 Crucial Tipping Points For Marketplace Adoption, Why UGC Plays Are Like Marketplaces & How To Determine Between Existential and Non-Existential Risk
- 20VC: Lessons from Investing in Uber and Airbnb, How To Think Through Bundling vs Unbundling, Late Stage Funds Moving Earlier, Early Stage Funds Moving Later& The Mechanics of Venture That Founders Should Know with Derek Zanutto, General Partner @ Capital
- 20VC: Sarah Kunst on Why There Is Plenty Of Investor Money Still Available, The Megan Markle Effect and How It Impacts Hiring and Talent & Whether GP Commits Prevent Diversity and Inclusion
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 15 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Benchmark's Chetan Puttagunta on The One Question To Ask When Analysing Market Size, How To Compete in Today's War for Talent & Why We Have Seen An Over-Rotation In Running Businesses Based on Metrics
- 20VC: Why The Best Entrepreneurs Are Cockroaches, What Everyone Underestimates About Customer Acquisition & What You Don't But Need To Know About Payback Periods with Josh Buckley, Founder & Chairman @ Mino Games
- 20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer
- 20VC: Brad Feld on Why Market Size At Early Stage Is Not Helpful, His Biggest Learnings From The Boom & Bust of The Dot Com and How The Best VCs Work For Their CEOs
- 20VC: a16z's Ben Horowitz on How To Create An Environment of Trust with Founders, How and Why Creating Shocking Rules Is So Impactful To Culture & What The Samurai, Shaka Senghor and Toussaint Teach Us About Company Culture Building
- 20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter On Lessons From Investing in 14 $Bn Companies, What The Heck Is Going On In Cloud Today and Why Cloud IPO Floodgates Are About To Burst Open
- 20VC: Justin Kan on Why We Have To Normalize Vulnerability in Startups Today, Why Attaching Happiness To Future Outcomes Will Only Lead To Suffering & Why It Is Total BS That You Have To "Suffer" When Doing A Startup
- 20VC: The Transition From Founder To CEO, How To Determine When To Stretch On Price in Venture & The Benefits of Attribution for Partnership Dynamics with Jeff Richards, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 10 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- 20VC: Investing Lessons From Observing Doug Leone and Bill Gurley, Why It Is Easier To Be Contrarian As A VC Than As An Angel & What It Takes To Run Tinder's Product and Revenue Alongside A Seed Fund with Jeff Morris Jr, Founder @ Chapter One
- 20VC: Lessons From Scaling Trulia to IPO, How To Maximise Your Impact within Your Organisation and Why No One Is Ever 100% Ready For The Next Job with Heather Fernandez, Founder @ CEO @ Solv
- 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
- 20VC: Why Follow-On Investments Are Always A Better Investment, Why Spray and Pray Investing Is Like The Stock Market & Why Startups Need A Board From Day One with Jerry Neumann
- 20VC: 3 Key Differences Between US and Asian Tech Markets & With Such Large Incumbents Chasing Early Acquisitions, Is There A Market For Later Stage VC with Crystal Huang, Investor @ GGV Capital
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: YC's Ali Rowghani on Leadership Lessons From Steve Jobs, Ed Catmull and Jack Dorsey & The 3 Traits All Truly Successful Leaders Share
- 20VC: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on Why We Are In A Fallow Period For Consumer, Why It Is Bogus That Operational VCs Can Add More Value & 2 Golden Rules To Always Tell Entrepreneurs Pre-Investment
- 20VC: Why Spray & Pray Investing Is Wrong, Why Data-Informed VC Beats Data Driven VC & What To Look For When Investing In A Marketplace with Josh Breinlinger, Managing Director @ Jackson Square Ventures
- 20VC: Why You Should Not Invest From Patterns, Why No Good Business Was Built As An Analogy Of Another & Why The Rise Of The 'Celebrity Investor' Is Concerning with Emily Melton, Partner @ DFJ
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 24 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Creating A Competitive Process Between VCs & Having Bill Gurley As A Board Member with Aaron Hirschhorn, Founder & CEO @ DogVacay
- 20VC: Why There Is A Revolution In VC, Why Boards Are Inherently Inefficient & Why Data Will Be Central To VC In The Future with Chris Farmer, General Partner @ SignalFire
- 20VC: Binary's Justin Caldbeck on Specialisation Being Key To Success In VC, The Biggest Problem In VC Today and Why The Future Is A Moneyless Barter Economy
- 20VC: Why Adaptability Is Key To Fundraising, Why Supply Is Always The First Priority In Marketplaces & Why Sometimes You Have To Hire Fast & Fire Fast with Nav Athwal, Founder & CEO @ RealtyShares
- 20VC: How AI Can Enhance Not Replace Humans? What Will Differentiate Between The Winners & The Losers In AI? Why AGI Is Further Away Than We Think with Nitesh Banta, Founder & CEO @ B12
- 20VC: Science Inc's Peter Pham on Why The Battle Between Entrepreneurs & VCs Is Unfair, How To Even The Playing Field & How To Tell When A VC Really Is Interested
- 20VC: Maximising Engagement and Retention on Mobile & Why There Should Always Be Availability To A Free Product with Sean Brecker, CEO @ Headspace
- 20VC: Europe's Youngest Series A Venture Partner, James Wise @ Balderton Capital on How To Get Into Venture & What The Future Of The VC Industry Looks Like
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2016 →
2015 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
Appearances (6)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
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| 20VC: Doug Leone, Bill Ackman, Bill Gurley and Orlando Bravo on "Does Price Matter"; When compilation | Feb 9, 2024 | 2m |
| 20VC: 13 of the Great Investing Minds on When to Pay Up vs When To Remain Disciplined and compilation | Aug 12, 2022 | 1m |
| The Tiger Global Memo: From Sequoia Capital to Benchmark and Thrive: The World's Best on t compilation | Feb 23, 2022 | 1m |
| 20VC: Bill Gurley and Michael Eisenberg on The First Signs of an Impending Bust, What Happ | Dec 6, 2021 | 18m |
| 20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forw | Jan 4, 2021 | 15m |
| 20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnershi | Jun 24, 2019 | 22m |
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| Episode | Date | On tape | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20VC: The Memo: Bill Gurley, Doug Leone, Keith Rabois; Investing Lessons from Prior Busts, | Jun 29, 2022 | 1m | clip played |