Bill Gurley
General Partner, Benchmark. On 7 shows, 49 appearances, plus 6 compilation re-airs not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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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.
7shows
49appearances
556statements
120resolved
74supported
12contradicted
62%fully supported
552said about them ↓ Everything Bill Gurley said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Gurley: Anthropic leaders believe they are midwifing a deity, not writing software
“I don't think they think they're writing software. I think they're midwifing a deity here, and I don't know which one I'm more afraid of, the regulatory capture or the second theory I call the Dr. Frankenstein theory.”
Gurley: US proprietary AI will likely lose its lead over Chinese open-source AI
“I think the odds that, that, you know,
The US with two, you know, proprietary models can stay ahead of China with 10 open source ones is very low.”
Gurley: Endowment VC Managers Are Bonused on Paper Marks
“But the thing people may not realize is the managers of the VC group at the large endowments have no incentive to try and right size this number. In fact, many of them are bonused on paper marks. And so, if anything, they have the reverse incentives to get the…”
Gurley: Defense tech startups and Palantir profit from escalating China tensions
“You have the new kind of VC-backed defense companies who all, and maybe I kind of put Palantir in that group, but they all I think have an incentive To kind of have tension with China, if you will. It actually increases revenue. I call them the new neocons.”
Gurley: US policy to block China from AI is futile and backfired
“I think the policy of American, of the American government to try and keep China out of the AI game is futile. I've always felt that way. I don't think it'll work. In this case, I actually think it backfired.”
Gurley: Cross-country excess death data shows COVID lockdowns achieved nothing
“They've gone back through, and looked at excess deaths at a number of different countries, and lockdowns achieved nothing.”
Gurley: OpenAI Consumer Subscription Cohorts Suffer ~65% Annual Churn
“At least for the cohorts that are old enough, the churn's about 65% annually, so they're only 35% retaining, which Sachs had hinted at on All In, and maybe the reason that I think Sam at one point said he didn't really see the twenty-dollar thing as his future…”
Gurley: Leading AI players are begging for regulation to protect an oligopoly
“I think the thing, you know, that could cut against that, if the regulation gets extremely difficult and mundane and expensive, that could actually lead to more oligopoly. And I think some of the players know that and are begging for regulation.”
Gurley: China's open-source AI ecosystem can innovate faster than the US
“Because it's more intense, everyone's chosen to go open source, and that creates a system that, in my mind, is capable of innovating far faster Then the competitive system we have here.”
Gurley rejects Washington and Silicon Valley's vilification of China
“Having spent a ton of time in China over the past 20 years, it's hard for me to adopt this mindset of vilification that's heavy amongst many in Washington and now many in Silicon Valley.”
Gurley: Traditional IPO process is insanely unfair to companies
“I think it is insanely unfair to the companies the way they're forced to go through this process where The bankers pick the price and pick the shareholders. There's just no need to do that.”
Gurley: Bank regulatory capture blocks instant payment systems in US
“And precisely because of regulatory capture, the banks have kept our government from doing that. They've, the government wanted to, they have something called FedNow, but there's massive pushback in the finance committee in Washington, so it never happens.”
Gurley: Proxy advisory firms operate an opaque 'heist'
“They score you, but they score you with a black box. They don't tell you how they score you. Right. And guess how you can learn more. You hire them. So they get paid on both sides, and it's just, it's more of a heist, I think, than anything else.”
Gurley: Elon Musk's Tesla compensation package is the right model
“The Tesla case is a great example that, that package, that type of package that they did for Elon, I've said this, you know, publicly, I would agree to that type of package for every company I've ever worked with, and most CEOs wouldn't take it. It basically s…”
Gurley: Passive index funds should not vote corporate proxies
“One thing that would be really great is if they just wouldn't vote because then the people that are active shareholders would have More of a say in what happens with these companies, but there's, they own such a large percentage.”
Gurley: Rest of world will run on Chinese AI if open source is restricted
“Same, same exact conclusion, which is rest of the world ends up running on Chinese models. If they're able to succeed at what you just said.”
Gurley: Anthropic funds more lobbyists advocating for AI regulation than anyone else
“No one's funding more lobbyists begging for AI regulation than Anthropic themselves.”
Gurley: 17-year patent terms are too long; innovation would be faster without them
“I would just say, you know, a 17 year patent is way too far. Like, we need to dial it back. I think that we will innovate faster without it.”
Gurley: The claim that Chinese tech companies are merely copycats is false
“And then you hear this idea, oh, you know, the Chinese are just copycats. They're not innovators. It's just not true. Like, it's just flat out not true.”
Gurley: Travis Kalanick is one of the smartest, hardest-working people he knows
“Uber started in the dingiest, you know, smallest of offices like most startups do, and I already talked about how determined Travis was. He's one of the smartest people I've ever met. He's one of the hardest working people I've ever met, and I don't think the …”
Gurley: Chinese Open-Source AI Is Biggest Threat to US Dominance
“I said then, and I still believe now, the biggest threat to the U.S. Let's call it AI hegemony is, is the Chinese open source models, and the developers even in the US that are working on their own are using those, and you can see that on all the tables that a…”
Gurley: Microsoft's OpenAI deal uses cloud credits to create cashless revenue
“It started with the original, from my perspective, with the original Microsoft open AI deal where credits go in as A in kind investment. And then those credits are used back against, you know, Azure and Microsoft cloud services. And in the, in that case, you k…”
Gurley: Copying David Swensen's 50% illiquid Yale model broke LP liquidity
“I would suggest that what we might be seeing is the exact result of everyone copying the Yale model. You know, Howard Marks famously said, you make a lot of money when you do something non-consensus and accurate. But what if everyone copies David Swenson? What…”
Gurley: Putting retail IRAs into 2-and-20 venture funds will increase fraud
“If we move to a world where, you know, the answer to getting the everyday consumer into high growth tech is to put their, you know, endowments, for one case, IRAs into, you know, these venture funds that are charging two and 20. I just think there's more obfus…”
The other half of the tape: Bill Gurley's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 524 times in 235 episodes across the shows. 28 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 161Jason Calacanis 55David Sacks 25Jason Lemkin 21Brad Gerstner 20Chris Sacca 16John Coogan 15Shervin Pishevar 12
Statements about Bill Gurley, by other people (28)
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”
Prince: Companies have substantial control over their first-day IPO pop
“Like you have a lot of control over how much the pop is going to be. And we sat with bankers and we were like, listen, we want it to go up about. And they were like, okay, if you wanted to go up to 20%, you price it right here. So we priced it right at that po…”
Sanchez: Bill Gurley backed WeWork because Adam Neumann was a showman
“He said when he first met him in a series A, so the company basically had nothing in existence. His company benchmark had never done a real estate transaction. That's what this guy was asking him to do. But he goes, within the first few minutes, I knew I was g…”
Gerstner: AI clusters scaling to 1 million GPUs are already being planned
“Now, I think these things, Bill, are already being planned and built.”
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…”
Sacks: Statistically, investment banks rip off founders during traditional IPOs
“And then on top of that, we know statistically Bill Gurley published all the stats. The investment banks are going to rip you off.”
Sacks: Research shows unionized police departments face more excessive force complaints
“You know, I, our friend Bill Gurley has been tweeting a lot of great research that around police departments that are unionized, there's a lot more complaints against them. There's a lot more examples of the use of force and unwarranted use of force.”
Prince: Pricing IPOs at maximum valuation benefits VCs over operating executives
“The problem with that is if you look at all the companies that, that have done that, so the Airbnbs and others that they basically, you know, that's great for your private market investors. That's great for the VCs. That's great for any of the founders that ar…”
Gladwell: Mentors should be one step ahead rather than industry legends
“What you want is someone who's one step ahead of you. So you can actually kind of grow with your mentor, right? And they're much, they have just been through what you are about to go through. So their advice is actually current and useful.”
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 …”
Coogan: SpaceX's 10% to 30% day-one pop marks a successful IPO
“The IPO is successful, I would say. There's been a bunch of chatter back and forth. Bull cases, bear cases. But overall it's hard not to look at this as a success. The, you know, Bill Gurley doesn't want a crazy pop on day one, doesn't want it to go up a hundr…”
Bill Gurley Has Repeatedly Warned About Nvidia's Related-Party Startup Deals
“Bill Gurley has a nose for bubbles, like he just can smell bubbles, and he's been harping on the he's been harping on the Nvidia related party transaction thing for quite a while.”
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”
Coogan: Only two of Benchmark's 2017 partners remain today
“On that exact date, Benchmark's equal GP roster was Bill Gurley, Eric Vistria, Matt Kohler, Mitch Lasky, Peter Fenton, Sarah Tavel. Today, the partnership has changed dramatically. The only two that remain are Peter and Eric. And you have Chetan, Ev Randall, a…”
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2026 78 mentions in 44 episodes 2 per episode
- Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- How to Be More Successful Than 99% of People | Malcolm Gladwell
- Software Stocks Implode, Claude's Hit List, State of the Union Reactions, Trump's Tariff Pivot
- Stop Over-Explaining: The 3 S’s Rule For Projecting Authority
- Meta Acquires Manus, Nvidia's $20B Groq deal, Doordash's Reddit Firestorm l Diet TBPN
- The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- AI Agents Hack Hugging Face, White House Promotes Science’s Golden Age | Diet TBPN
- Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
- 36 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 96 mentions in 41 episodes 2 per episode
- Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Reverse Engineering 200 AI Startups, Nucleus Genomics Controversy, Drone Hunting | Diet TBPN
- 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
- OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?
- Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- 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
- 33 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 79 mentions in 31 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
- Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- Ed Sim & Jamin Ball: Did Figma Kill M&A Markets & 3 Requirements to IPO in 2024 | E1101 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Thomas Laffont | All-In Summit 2024
- Bari Weiss | All-In Summit 2024
- 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
- 23 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 30 mentions in 18 episodes 2 per episode
- E114: Markets update: whipsaw macro picture, big tech, startup mass extinction event, VC reckoning
- E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more
- 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
- E142: "Rich Men North of Richmond" hits #1, upward mobility, real estate capital crunch, Trump RICO
- E133: Market melt-up, IPO update, AI startups overheat, Reddit revolts & more with Brad Gerstner
- E117: Did Stripe miss its window? Plus: VC market update, AI comes for SaaS, Trump's savvy move
- Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 94 mentions in 34 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
- E80: Recession deep dive: VC psychology, macro risks, Tiger Global, predictions and more
- Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- E83: Market slide continues, and how to address Uvalde
- Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- E101: Ye acquires Parler, Snap drops 30%, macro outlook, VC metrics, valuing stocks & more
- Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 26 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 36 mentions in 15 episodes 2 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
- E29: Coinbase goes public, direct listings vs. IPOs, unions & more with Bestie Guestie Brad Gerstner
- 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
- E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more
- E45: Theranos & VC fraud risks, China bans video games, Texas SB8, Apple app store, CA fires, Rogan
- E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 51 mentions in 21 episodes 2 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
- 13 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
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Bill's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| BG2LEDGER | General Partner, Benchmarkhost | 37 | 321 | 65% 49/75 | full record on BG2 Pod → |
| 20VCLEDGER | General Partner, Benchmark | 3 +4 | 69 | 64% 9/14 | full record on 20VC → |
| ALL-INLEDGER | General Partner, Benchmark | 5 +2 | 55 | 47% 8/17 | full record on All-In → |
| INVEST LIKE THE BESTLEDGER | General Partner, Benchmark | 1 | 48 | 50% 4/8 | full record on Invest Like the Best → |
| BIGDEALLEDGER | General Partner, Benchmark | 1 | 29 | 75% 3/4 | full record on BigDeal → |
| KNOWLEDGE PROJECTLEDGER | General Partner, Benchmark | 1 | 22 | 50% 1/2 | full record on the Knowledge Project → |
| TBPNLEDGER | General Partner, Benchmark | 1 | 12 | — | full record on TBPN → |