--- title: "1 Social Graph Quotes By Bill Gurley" description: "1 Social Graph quotes by Bill Gurley. Plus more from Bill Gurley and more Social Graph sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/deb/bill-gurley-27212_ability_facebook-has-stitched-together-your-soci_1700754.jpg" --- > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gurley/facebook-has-stitched-together-your-social-graph-the-idea-of-an/) [Bill Gurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gurley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/deb/bill-gurley-27212_ability_facebook-has-stitched-together-your-soci_1700754.jpg) ## More by Bill Gurley > [I have never seen Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, or Reed Hastings complain about being public. Nor have they ever argued that being public prevented…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gurley/i-have-never-seen-jeff-bezos-marc-benioff-or-reed-hastings-complain/) [Bill Gurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gurley/) > [I think one thing that may have happened with both Facebook and Zynga is that they may have waited too long to go public.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gurley/i-think-one-thing-that-may-have-happened-with-both-facebook-and-zynga/) [Bill Gurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gurley/) > [If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in essence an arbitrage game, and arbitrage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gurley/if-one-asserts-that-buying-customers-below-what-they-charge-them-is-a/) [Bill Gurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gurley/) > [Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gurley/many-consumer-internet-business-executives-are-loyalists-of-the/) [Bill Gurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gurley/) > [Almost everybody who thinks about local thinks about daily deals, but companies like OpenTable and Zillow and Yelp are all getting their money from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gurley/almost-everybody-who-thinks-about-local-thinks-about-daily-deals-but/) [Bill Gurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gurley/) > [There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gurley/there-is-no-fear-in-silicon-valley-right-now/) [Bill Gurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gurley/) > [You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gurley/you-can-t-make-money-with-a-consensus-accurate-prediction/) [Bill Gurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gurley/) > [Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gurley/having-an-investor-on-your-board-of-directors-who-is-naive-about/) [Bill Gurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gurley/) > [Facebook has stitched together your social graph. The idea of an interest graph is to bring together everyone that has shared interests. If I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gurley/facebook-has-stitched-together-your-social-graph-the-idea-of-an/) [Bill Gurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gurley/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gurley/it-s-not-for-everybody-to-tweet-it-s-for-everybody-to-follow-the-more/) [Bill Gurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gurley/) > [Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. The problem is those slices are negotiated every time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gurley/most-firms-are-hierarchical-in-nature-with-everyone-getting-different/) [Bill Gurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gurley/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gurley/if-the-goal-is-to-build-companies-that-maximize-long-term-equity/) [Bill Gurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gurley/) > [Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gurley/marketing-executives-like-big-budgets-as-big-budgets-make-it-easier/) [Bill Gurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gurley/) > [No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gurley/no-one-s-fearful-everyone-s-greedy-and-it-will-eventually-end/) [Bill Gurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gurley/) > [It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gurley/it-s-really-hard-to-run-a-business-against-somebody-who-is-not-acting/) [Bill Gurley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gurley/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/social-graph/bill-gurley/#itemlist", "name": "1 Social Graph Quotes By Bill Gurley", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Facebook has stitched together your social graph. 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