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Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

~Bill Gurley

Topics: Big Budgets Easier Executives Grow Like Line Make Marketing Top

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

~Bill Gurley

Topics: Capital Each Equals Partner Production Time Venture Venture Capital

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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.

~Bill Gurley

Topics: Bring Capitalist How Key Markets Operate Public Solid Table Think Understanding Venture I Think

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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

Topics: Appreciates Build Companies Corporate Critical Equity Goal Long-Term Maximize Obviously Performance Street Then Value Wall Wall Street Way

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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.

~Bill Gurley

Topics: About Argued Being Complain Doing Ever Focus Jeff Long-Term Marc Never Nor Public Reed Seen Them Things

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Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.

~Bill Gurley

Topics: About Board Complex Directors Finds Having Investor Markets Naive Public Scary Them Who Your

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It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.

~Bill Gurley

Topics: Acting Against Business Hard Really Run Somebody Were Who

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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.

~Bill Gurley

Topics: About Almost Companies Daily Deals Everybody Getting Like Local Market Money Thinks Who

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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.

~Bill Gurley

Topics: Check Everybody Figure Follow Information Literally More More People Out People Place See Tweet You

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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.

~Bill Gurley

Topics: Ability Ads Against Biking Bring Everyone Facebook Graph High Idea Interest Interests Isolate Mountain People Place Put Really Shared Social Together Who Your I Can

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: May 10th, 1966

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