Each Quote by Bill Gurley Download Open image “Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.” — Bill Gurley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Each Partner Production Time Venture Venture capital
If you go to a venture firm, what you're doing is you're buying money from them in exchange for equity. They have a commodity… — Naval Ravikant Copy Share Image
Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
“Building a business doesn't mean getting venture capital funding. It means finding customers and making money.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
When people start talking about venture capital and finances and how to create this and do that, a lot of it, I swear, it's… — Tony Hawk Copy Share Image
I'll say this: I can't think of one instance in my 20 years in venture capital in which I have wanted to sell a… — Douglas Leone Copy Share Image
During times of plenty - when venture funding is abundant and startups multiply like rabbits - every business looks like a winner. — Neil Blumenthal Copy Share Image
Venture capital is about .02% of the U.S. economy invested, and it accounts for 11% of total U.S. jobs and 21% of U.S. economic… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything. — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
I have never seen Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, or Reed Hastings complain about being public. Nor have they ever argued that being public prevented… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
I think one thing that may have happened with both Facebook and Zynga is that they may have waited too long to go public.… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in essence an arbitrage game, and arbitrage… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
Almost everybody who thinks about local thinks about daily deals, but companies like OpenTable and Zillow and Yelp are all getting their money from… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Facebook has stitched together your social graph. The idea of an interest graph is to bring together everyone that has shared interests. If I… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. The problem is those slices are negotiated every time… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year. — Randy Jackson Copy Share Image
We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were… — Jack Adams Copy Share Image
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
The bottom line, in the professional level, no matter where you go, there's going to be competition. That's what it is. At the end… — Scott Tolzien Copy Share Image
My brothers and sister and me grew up making fun of each other, the way we'd speak or move. When we get together, everyone's… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
One of the things that I miss about Canada is that even the strangers, you have an immediate rapport, there's just an understanding that… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70's Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people… — Laura Prepon Copy Share Image
The weird thing about metal fans is we're all so maladjusted in a lot of ways. We're individualistic and opinionated and severe in our… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women. — Carl Karcher Copy Share Image
We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this… — Yvette Clarke Copy Share Image
