Bill Gurley Biography

Bill Gurley has spent over 10 years as a General Partner at Benchmark. He joined in 1999 after spending two years as a partner with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.
His current investments and board seats include Brighter DogVacay GrubHub Linden Lab Nextdoor OpenTable (IPO: OPEN) Sailthru Scale Computing Uber (UBNT) and Zillow.com (IPO: Z).
Before entering the venture capital business Bill spent four years on Wall Street as a top-ranked research analyst including three years at CS First Boston focusing on personal computer hardware and software. His research coverage included such companies as Dell Compaq and Microsoft and he was the lead analyst on the Amazon IPO. In both 1995 and 1996 Bill was a member of the Institutional Investor All-American Research Team.
Prior to his investment career Bill was a design engineer at Compaq Computer where he worked on products such as the 486/50 and Compaq’s first multi-processor server. Before Compaq he served in the technical marketing group of Advanced Micro Devices’ embedded processor division.

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