Who is Bill Gurley?
Bill Gurley is an American venture capitalist. Since 1999, he has been a general partner at Benchmark, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. He is best known for an early investment in Uber in 2011. Gurley is recognized in markets for his long tenure and significant investments within the venture capital sector.
Career
Prior to his investment career, Gurley worked as a design engineer at Compaq Computer and in the technical marketing group of AMD's embedded processor division. He then spent four years on Wall Street as a research analyst, including three years at CS First Boston, where he was called “one of Wall Street’s premier technology analysts.” He was also a partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners before becoming a general partner at Benchmark in 1999.
What is Bill Gurley known for?
- Venture capitalist
- General Partner at Benchmark
- Early investor in Uber
- Former Wall Street technology analyst
What Bill Gurley has said
By topic:Artificial Intelligence (3)
“On December 9th of the year the EU Product Liability Directive (PLD) will go into effect. For the first time software will have same product liability as physical products. With the recent plane stoppage caused by software & the reckless hacking by leading LLM companies, the US should do the same thing. The creators of the software need to recognize the financial impact that is possible. Which is huge.”
“This is another 'must read' AI article in @nytimes. Jaron Lanier speaks with experience about Silicon Valley's ability to think fantastically about what their technology can do - to the point of radicalism. He unpacks Anthropic's unusual & error-prone approach to safety, which is a direct result of their religious belief that AI models will one-day run the world and 'manage the humans.' It's this belief that cause…”
“It’s becoming clear that the notion of AI alignment 'is' the safety problem in AI.”
Frequently asked
- Who is Bill Gurley?
- Bill Gurley is an American venture capitalist. He has been a general partner at Benchmark, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, since 1999.
- What is Bill Gurley known for?
- Bill Gurley is best known for an early investment in Uber in 2011. He was also recognized as one of Wall Street’s premier technology analysts.
- Where does Bill Gurley share views on Artificial Intelligence?
- Bill Gurley shares views on Artificial Intelligence on X at @bgurley.
