5 Bill Gurley Quotes for You to Enjoy

Bill Gurley

American Businessman

Born: May 10, 1966

About Against Business Think Time Value

Related authors: Bill Gates Henry Ford Jim Rohn Les Brown Peter Drucker Stephen Covey Steve Jobs Warren Buffett

If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street appreciates is obviously critical to that goal. Bill Gurley

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I think one thing that may have happened with both Facebook and Zynga is that they may have waited too long to go public. They got particularly cute on that front. Bill Gurley

Facebook Long Cute Think Too One Thing Both Particularly Got Go Waited Front May Happened Public Thing

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has. Bill Gurley

Time Partner Venture Venture Capital Equals Capital Production Each

The first time you went to eBay, you probably didn't do a transaction. Bill Gurley

Time You First First Time Transaction

Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. The problem is those slices are negotiated every time a firm raises a new fund, so in between funds, which is most of the time, the partners are trying to outgun one another to make a stronger case for themselves. Bill Gurley

Time Nature Problem Stronger Every Every Time Everyone Those Hierarchical Case Economic Firm Between New Pie Most Make Partners Another Trying Getting Different In-Between Which Themselves Fund Funds Raises

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