
“The minute you set a really onerous rule, you is likely to be setting your self up for a mistake. And enterprise, I’ve discovered, is a world the place that occurs incessantly.”
— Invoice Gurley
Invoice Gurley (@bgurley) has spent greater than 20 years as a normal accomplice at Benchmark. Earlier than getting into the enterprise capital enterprise, Invoice spent 4 years on Wall Road as a top-ranked analysis analyst, together with three years at Credit score Suisse First Boston.
Invoice additionally maintains a weblog on the evolution and economics of high-technology companies referred to as Above the Crowd.
Over his enterprise profession, he has labored with such firms as GrubHub, Nextdoor, OpenTable, Stitch Fix, Uber, and Zillow.
Invoice has a BS in laptop science from the College of Florida and an MBA from the College of Texas. He’s additionally a chartered monetary analyst. Invoice is a board trustee on the Santa Fe Institute, a analysis and training heart centered on the research and understanding of complicated adaptive techniques.
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE
- Join with Invoice Gurley:
- Above the Crowd
- Benchmark
- Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael E. Porter | Amazon
- An Interview with Venture Capitalist Bill Gurley, MBA ’93 by Texas McCombs | Medium
- Buy-Side vs. Sell-Side Analysts: What’s the Difference? | Investopedia
- ‘Buy!’ Was Cry, as Stock Bubble Burst | The New York Times
- Institutional Investor
- One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market by Peter Lynch | Amazon
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing by Burton G. Malkiel | Amazon
- I Beg to Differ by Howard Marks | Oaktree Capital
- Strong Opinions, Weakly Held: Wisdom as the Courage to Act On Your Knowledge and the Humility to Doubt What You Know | Psychology Today
- The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley | Amazon
- Oaktree Capital Management
- Microeconomics vs. Macroeconomics Investments
- Santa Fe Institute
- The 2022 All-America Research Team | Institutional Investor
- The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Palm | Fast Company
- The Home for Great Writing | Substack
- Return on Invested Capital: What Is It, Formula and Calculation, and Example | Investopedia
- The Stern Stewart Institute
- Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies by Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart, and David Wessels | Amazon
- Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition by Michael J. Mauboussin | Amazon
- Warren Buffett’s Shareholder Letters | Berkshire Hathaway
- Myers–Briggs Type Indicator | Wikipedia
- Full Transcript: Benchmark General Partner Bill Gurley on Recode Decode | Vox
- Increasing Returns and the New World of Business by W. Brian Arthur | HBR
- What Are Network Effects? | HBS Online
- OpenTable By the Numbers: From Launch to $2.6 Billion | Eater
- The Rising Impact of Open Source | Above the Crowd
- Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model | Above the Crowd
- The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen | Amazon
- Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore | Amazon
- Sheryl Sandberg: We’ve Paid Hackers Millions to Find Security Bugs | Fortune MPW
- General Magic (Documentary) | Prime Video
- Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure by Jerry Kaplan | Amazon
- Jodorowsky’s Dune | Prime Video
- Alien | Prime Video
- Aliens | Prime Video
- Tony Fadell — On Constructing the iPod, iPhone, Nest, and a Lifetime of Curiosity | The Tim Ferriss Present #403
- Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell | Amazon
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight | Amazon
- Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi | Amazon
- Spare by Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex | Amazon
- How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley | Amazon
- Can Xi Jinping Live Up to the Legacy of China’s Greatest Modern Reformer, Deng Xiaoping? | Quartz
- How Lee Kuan Yew Engineered Singapore’s Economic Miracle | BBC News
- We Are Passionate about Making the Web a Better Place | Automattic
- Linux
- The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond | Amazon
- History of the Temple | Sagrada Família
- MySQL
- The Developer Data Platform | MongoDB
- Creators of Elasticsearch & Kibana | Elastic
- Android History: The Evolution of the Biggest Mobile OS in the World | Android Authority
- The Open Compute Project (OCP)
- Linux Foundation Claims 5G NFV First, Based on China Mobile Code | Rethink
- Amazon’s AWS Strategy Becomes Clearer Every Day | Above the Crowd
- Production-Grade Container Orchestration | Kubernetes
- What is a Container? | Docker
- OpenStreetMap
- Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
- Matt Ridley: When Ideas Have Sex | TEDGlobal 2010
- RISC-V International
- Open Source for Autonomous Driving | The Autoware Foundation
- Matt Suppes: Open Source Nuclear Fusion | Life Conference
- Interest Graph | Wikipedia
- “An Entire Generation…” | Bill Gurley, Twitter
- “Forget Those Prices Happened.” | Bill Gurley, Twitter
- All Revenue is Not Created Equal: The Keys to the 10X Revenue Club | Above the Crowd
- Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Explained with Formula and Examples | Investopedia
- R.I.P. Good Times | Sequoia
- GAAP vs. Non-GAAP: What’s the Difference? | Investopedia
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson | Amazon
- Explore. Discover. Create. | Second Life
- Bill Gurley, Philip Rosedale: Back to the Future | Invest Like the Best
- The Metaverse is the Future of Digital Connection | Meta
- What Is LARPing? (Live Action Role Playing) | Insider
- Burning Man
- Ready Player One: A Novel by Ernest Cline | Amazon
- The Metaverse in 2040 | Pew Research Center
- One Platform to Connect | Zoom
- Microsoft to Invest $10 Billion in OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT | The New York Times
- How India Runs on Meta’s WhatsApp Message App | Vox
- Tencent’s WeChat App Keeps Growing Despite Beijing Crackdown | Bloomberg
- Mark Zuckerberg on Lengthy-Time period Technique, Enterprise and Parenting Ideas, Private Power Administration, Constructing the Metaverse, In search of Awe, the Position of Faith, Fixing Deep Technical Challenges (e.g., AR), and Extra | The Tim Ferriss Present #582
- The Sunk Cost Fallacy | The Decision Lab
- Quality of Earnings: Definition, Analysis, and Why It’s Important | Investopedia
- The Data Cloud | Snowflake
- The History of Uber – Uber’s Timeline | Uber Newsroom
- Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion | FiveThirtyEight
- How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size | Above the Crowd
- What is Total Addressable Market (TAM)? | Divestopedia
- What Is eSports? A Look at an Explosive, Billion-Dollar Industry | CNN
- How Amazon Same-Day Delivery Works | HowStuffWorks
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Letters to Shareholders | Peter Fisk
- Relentless.com
- The No-Stats All-Star | The New York Times Magazine
- Shane Battier: The No-Stats All-Star | Invest Like the Best
- Jonathan Haidt — The Coddling of the American Thoughts, Tips on how to Turn into Intellectually Antifragile, and Tips on how to Lose Anger by Finding out Morality | The Tim Ferriss Present #644
- Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase — The Artwork of Relentless Focus, Getting ready for Full-Contact Entrepreneurship, Important Forks within the Path, Dealing with Haters, The Knowledge of Paul Graham, Epigenetic Reprogramming, and A lot Extra | The Tim Ferriss Present #627
- Tobi Lütke — From Snowboard Store to Billion-Greenback Firm | The Tim Ferriss Present #359
- Business-to-Business (B2B) | Investopedia
- Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop | Amazon
- Mr. China: A Memoir by Tim Clissold | Amazon
- Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder | Amazon
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein | Amazon
- Far-Out Thinking | Psychological Science
- The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein | Amazon
- Legg Mason | Wikipedia
- Events: The Complexity of Sustainability: Beyond the Power Grid | Santa Fe Institute
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | Amazon
- 20 Cognitive Biases That Affect Your Decisions | Mental Floss
- James Clear, Atomic Habits — Easy Methods for Constructing (and Breaking) Habits, Questions for Private Mastery and Progress, Techniques for Writing and Launching a Mega-Bestseller, Discovering Leverage, and Extra | The Tim Ferriss Present #648
- Eric Newcomer | Substack
- Techmeme
- Runnin’ Down a Dream: How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love by Bill Gurley | McCombs School, University of Texas
- Regulatory Capture Definition With Examples | Investopedia
- Obama’s Surprising Answer on Which Part of Obamacare Has Disappointed Him the Most | Vox
- Epic
- Citizens United Explained | Brennan Center for Justice
- Instant Payment | Wikipedia
- Fed Now Service | Federal Reserve
- OpenSecrets
SHOW NOTES
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- The e-book Invoice calls “essentially the most environment friendly short-form MBA one can discover.”
- Promote-side analysts vs. buy-side analysts.
- Monetary fashions, guidelines of thumb, and making (generally flawed) choices.
- Howard Marks and Stan Druckenmiller.
- Micro vs. macro investing.
- Institutional Investor’s All-America Analysis Crew.
- Increasing distribution.
- Return On Invested Capital (ROIC).
- Repurposing good concepts for various purposes.
- The conviction of community results.
- SaaS and open supply.
- Wager sizing.
- Equal partnership over hierarchy.
- Classes realized from companions.
- Advisable sources.
- Issues open supply can remedy.
- Constructing a greater community with the curiosity graph.
- Dissecting Invoice’s Twitter thread about dangers and sudden valuation resets.
- The Metaverse.
- Income and earnings high quality matter.
- Undervalued aggressive benefits.
- Jeff Bezos: company mad scientist?
- The counterintuitive condemnation of firm camaraderie.
- Tobi Lütke.
- Books Invoice has gifted incessantly.
- The Santa Fe Institute.
- Invoice’s board.
- Cultivating anti-tribalism.
- Twitter: what’s it good for?
- Newsletters and different sources Invoice depends on.
- Invoice’s e-book in progress.
- Regulatory seize.
- Predicting what America will appear to be in 10-20 years.
- Parting ideas.
MORE BILL GURLEY QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW
“The minute you set a really onerous rule, you is likely to be setting your self up for a mistake. And enterprise, I’ve discovered, is a world the place that occurs incessantly.”
— Invoice Gurley
“The method via which you truly put the phrases to paper and construction the paragraphs, construction the argument, you get smarter. Generally you resolve, ‘Oops, I used to be flawed.’ You study by placing all of it collectively.”
— Invoice Gurley
“Should you’re beginning an organization since you suppose it’s going to be a great life-style, holy shit. You’re in for a impolite awakening.”
— Invoice Gurley
“Open supply is means higher at complicated issues than easy issues.”
— Invoice Gurley
“Why can we use authorities {dollars} to fund stuff that turns into proprietary?”
— Invoice Gurley
“Be much less tribal.”
— Invoice Gurley
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