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Bill Gurley [1966-0] American

Rank: 104
Businessman, Venture capitalist

Bill Gurley is a general partner at Benchmark, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California. He is listed consistently on the Forbes Midas List and is considered one of technology’s top dealmakers.

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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.		101
It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly estimate the future contribution.		102
I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.		103
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.		104
I have never seen Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, or Reed Hastings complain about being public. Nor have they ever argued that being public prevented them from doing things with a long-term focus.		105
Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.		106
It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.		107
Almost everybody who thinks about local thinks about daily deals, but companies like OpenTable and Zillow and Yelp are all getting their money from the local market.		108
It's not for everybody to tweet, it's for everybody to follow. The more people figure that out, they see it's RSS-plus. It's literally the place you check for information.		109
Facebook has stitched together your social graph. The idea of an interest graph is to bring together everyone that has shared interests. If I can isolate the people who are into mountain biking in Marin, in one place, the ability to put ads against that is really high.		110
Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.		111
The first time you went to eBay, you probably didn't do a transaction.		112
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.		113
Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.		114
If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in essence an arbitrage game, and arbitrage games rarely last.		115
Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.		116

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