Bill Gurley Quotes & Sayings
14 most famous Bill Gurley quotes and sayings (businessman). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly estimate the future contribution.”
“Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.”
“It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.”
“Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.”
“The first time you went to eBay, you probably didn't do a transaction.”
“Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in essence an arbitrage game, and arbitrage games rarely last.”
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