BILL GURLEY
General Partner | Benchmark

Bill Gurley has spent over 20 years as a General Partner at Benchmark, joining in 1999. Before entering the venture capital business, he spent four years on Wall Street as a top-ranked research analyst, including three years at CS First Boston.

Over his venture career, Mr. Gurley has worked with such companies as GrubHub (IPO: GRUB), Nextdoor, OpenTable (IPO: OPEN, Acquired by Priceline), Stitch Fix (IPO: SFIX), Uber (IPO: UBER), and Zillow.com (IPO: Z). He serves as a board trustee at the Santa Fe Institute, a research and education center focused on the study and understanding of complex adaptive systems. Also, he maintains a blog on the evolution and economics of high technology businesses called Above the Crowd.

Mr. Gurley holds an MBA from the University of Texas and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Florida. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.