Legendary Investor Invoice Gurley on Investing Guidelines, Discovering Outliers, Insights from Jeff Bezos and Howard Marks, Should-Learn Books, Creating True Aggressive

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“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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#651: Legendary Investor Invoice Gurley on Investing Guidelines, Discovering Outliers, Insights from Jeff Bezos and Howard Marks, Should-Learn Books, Creating True Aggressive Benefits, Open-Supply Methods, Adapting Psychological Fashions to New Realities, and Extra


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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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