Hints and tips:
...As Gurley’s comments suggest, these investment deals are far murkier than they first appear....
...Her advocates, such as John Hope Bryant, a Nextdoor board member who runs financial literacy non-profit Operation Hope, have little doubt: “She is the Samurai soldier who comes in elegantly and looks like...
...Mr Gurley has argued bankers are incentivised to underprice traditional IPOs, depriving companies of proceeds that instead accrue to short-term traders....
...Eugene O’Donnell, a criminology professor at John Jay College in New York City and former NYPD officer, has called for Camden to produce more information that would help people gauge the efficacy of their...
...Mr Cohler became a board member in 2017, in the midst of Uber’s corporate crisis, replacing fellow Benchmark partner Bill Gurley....
...Mr Gurley will be replaced by Matt Cohler, a fellow Benchmark partner....
...into hierarchy and bureaucracy) and a 1962 collection of workplace advice, dating tips and recipes (the mould-breaking Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown, later editor of Cosmopolitan)....
...“We are in a reputational deficit,” admitted board member Bill Gurley. “It is going to take us a while to get out of this.”...
...“There will be many pages in the history books devoted to [Travis Kalanick],” wrote Bill Gurley, an Uber board member representing one of the firms that demanded Mr Kalanick’s resignation, in a tweet....
...The fear of missing out is overwhelming the fear of losing money, as Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital warned recently....
...“If you raise money at a super-high valuation, you’re walking a high-wire act,” said John MacFarlane, who has led Sonos since it was founded in 2002. “We try and avoid all of that.”...
...john.gapper@ft.com...
...The only tip that I can remember came from the recently deceased feminist sex kitten, Helen Gurley Brown: What you have to do is work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up....
...It is 25 minutes’ drive from VC Bird international airport in St John’s, the island’s capital. The land slopes around the bay to a white crescent beach....
...Even the certainty of over-investment, though, is unlikely to stop this flood of money, according to John Doerr, one of the Valley’s most prominent financiers and a backer of Google and Netscape....
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