Bill Gurley
11 statements across 5 episodes · 5 bullish · 4 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Nov 6, 2024 by Jordi Hays · said 56 times in 26 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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brought up most by John Coogan (15), Jordi Hays (8), Martin Shkreli (4), Matthew Prince (2), Everett Randle (2), Brad Gerstner (2), Tyler Hogge (1), Delian Asparouhov (1)
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2026 26 mentions in 15 episodes 2 per episode
- Meta Acquires Manus, Nvidia's $20B Groq deal, Doordash's Reddit Firestorm l Diet TBPN
- AI Agents Hack Hugging Face, White House Promotes Science’s Golden Age | Diet TBPN
- More Details on OpenAI-Hugging Face, SpaceX SPV Investors Get Rugged, Demis and DeepMind | Diet TBPN
- Cloudflare CEO Predicts AI Agents Will Outnumber Humans 1,000-to-1
- Where Brad Gerstner Is Investing Billions
- Intel Rips, Thrive Launches Eternal, GPT 5.5 | Diet TBPN
- Benchmark’s Ship of Theseus, OpenAI Kills Sora, SpaceX $2T IPO Buzz | Diet TBPN
- Anthropic’s $380B round, Paramount vs. WB, Higgsfield ragebait drama | Diet TBPN
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 19 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- Reverse Engineering 200 AI Startups, Nucleus Genomics Controversy, Drone Hunting | Diet TBPN
- Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
- Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
- OpenAI Requesting Federal Backstop? | Diet TBPN
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
Everything said about Bill Gurley, oldest first
Nov 6, 2024 neutral
Feb 25, 2026 positive
Gurley: Hyper-curiosity is the single biggest career differentiator
“The thing that will differentiate you more in your career than anything else is to be the most hyper curious person That that's trying to do this thing. And once again, that's put on steroids with these AI tools. But if you are the most curious person that's c…”
Feb 25, 2026 negative
Gurley: Mega VC Funds Hijacked Startups' High-Growth Years from Public Markets
“You look at the Stripe or the Databricks case, they're using those large funds to convince the companies to stay private longer, maybe forever that's just a very different world than the one that I grew up in.
I think they turn around and the people that do t…”
Feb 25, 2026 negative
Gurley: Traditional College Pathways Restrict Student Agency and Exploration
“One of the problems that is, that has kind of evolved is that our college, our common college pathway has actually become more restrictive, and I think there's less agency, and kids are, Being encouraged. They have to sign up for a major before they ever go to…”
Feb 25, 2026 bearish
Feb 25, 2026 bullish
Gurley: AI Is Entering Public Consciousness Faster Than Prior Tech Waves
“I don't remember one. I mean, if you take the mobile wave or the PC wave or the, Client server or SaaS. I don't remember any of those kind of being thrown at the public consciousness this fast, and so I do think it's different this time on, from that front alo…”
Feb 25, 2026 bullish
Mar 25, 2026 neutral
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…”
Jun 10, 2026 positive
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…”
Jun 10, 2026 negative
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…”
Jun 13, 2026 positive
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…”