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...Benchmark’s voluble partner Bill Gurley last week took to X to suggest that the Mangs had found a new way to “goose [their] revenues”. “Expect a massive mess in the end,” he predicted....
...Bill Gurley, an early investor in the company, said it was impossible to overstate how good a job Khosrowshahi had done “in terms of getting the company on the right track, putting out all those fires, getting...
...But Silicon Valley venture capitalist Bill Gurley made a good point in an interview this week in which he pointed out that if tech companies were truly terrified about the dangers of AI, they would stop...
...Bill Gurley [general partner at venture capital firm Benchmark] has been very thoughtful about regulatory capture....
...Venture capitalist Bill Gurley has called these shares a red flag that give entrepreneurs the power to ignore investors....
...As the venture capitalist Bill Gurley put it last April: Previous “all-time” highs are completely irrelevant. It’s not “cheap” because it is down 70%. Forget those prices happened....
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...As venture capitalist Bill Gurley noted recently: “Previous ‘all-time’ highs are completely irrelevant. It’s not ‘cheap’ because it is down 70 per cent. Forget those prices happened.”...
...But Bill Gurley, the Benchmark venture capitalist best known for backing Uber, took a view that has become common among tech investors since Theranos melted down: that the start-up had little to do with...
...Going public through direct listing is cheaper for companies than a traditional IPO, and supporters such as Bill Gurley of venture capital firm Benchmark have said they provide a more efficient method of...
...In October, more than 100 companies and dozens of venture capitalists turned out to a conference on direct listings hosted by Benchmark Capital investor Bill Gurley, one of their most vocal advocates....
...Venture capitalist Bill Gurley declared this change would “unquestionably” lead to the end of IPOs. Yet no company has taken this hybrid option, perhaps wary of being the first....
...Bill Gurley, a partner at the venture firm Benchmark Capital, and Michael Moritz at Sequoia Capital have advocated for direct listings....
...Bill Gurley, general partner at Benchmark Capital and a Nextdoor board member, describes luring Friar to the chief executive role at Nextdoor in 2018 as a coup; indeed, her former company’s share price slumped...
...The outspoken venture capitalist, Bill Gurley, has condemned these first day pops, which indicate that a company could have priced its shares at a higher level and opted to sell fewer or raise more money...
...Forwarded from Sifted — the European start-up week Ben Horowitz, Mary Meeker, and Bill Gurley are among today’s ‘legends’ of venture capital, having withstood the industry’s toughest test — time....
...The large “pop” incited Bill Gurley, general partner at Benchmark Capital, to rail against the process....
...When shares in cloud software company Snowflake finished the first day up 112 per cent, venture capital investor Bill Gurley dubbed it “final proof” of a broken process....
...Gurley’s greatest hits -- The myth of drug expiration dates -- USD, S&P 500, Treasuries: the imperial circle -- Cinema’s greatest scene...
...Unity’s push comes as tech companies increasingly consider alternatives to traditional IPOs, which some venture capitalists such as Bill Gurley argued are inefficient and lacking in transparency....
...Job moves Miles Grimshaw has joined venture capital group Benchmark as a general partner after Bill Gurley stepped back from the five-person partnership....
...Proponents, such as storied venture capitalist Bill Gurley, argue that companies are “leaving too much money on the table” by passing along large profits to investors via the expected Day 1 “pop” in the...
...“The company had grown way too fast in many years,” said Bill Gurley of Benchmark, a major Uber investor....
...But Bill Gurley, the Benchmark partner in charge of its Uber investment, has publicly criticised the Japanese investor and its massive $100bn Vision Fund, accusing it of using “capital as a weapon” in competitive...
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