Bill Gurley Biography

Bill Gurley is a general partner at Benchmark. Gurley started at the firm in 1999 after working as a partner with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Gurley is well known as a strong investor who knows who to pick potential winners. His current portfolio includes companies such as OpenTable, Nextdoor, and GrubHub. Gurley has also worked as a research analyst. His work as an analyst included coverage on companies such as Dell and Microsoft. He also was the analyst leading the CS First Boston’s coverage of the Amazon IPO in the 1990s.

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