Bill Gurley

Who is Bill Gurley?

Bill Gurley is a General Partner with Benchmark Capital.He joined Benchmark Capital in 1999 after spending two years as a partner with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.

Before

entering the venture capital business, Bill spent four years on Wall

Street as a top-ranked research analyst, including three years at CS First Boston

focusing on personal computer hardware and software. His research

coverage included such companies as Dell, Compaq, and Microsoft, and he

was the lead analyst on the Amazon IPO. In both 1995 and 1996, Bill was a member of the Institutional Investor All-American Research Team.

Prior to his investment career, Bill was a design engineer at Compaq Computer,

where he worked on products such as the 486/50 and Compaq's first

multi-processor server. Before Compaq, he served in the technical

marketing group of Advanced Micro Devices' embedded processor division.

For the past twelve years, Bill has authored theAbove

the Crowd newsletter which focuses on the evolution and economics of

high technology businesses.

Current Investments: Business.com,

Linden Lab/SecondLife,

LiveOps,

Nanosolar, OpenTable,

Red 5 Studios,

Tropos Networks, and

Zillow.com.

Previous Investments: Avamar

Technologies (acquired by EMC), Crossgain (acquired by BEA

Systems), Employease (acquired by ADP), JAMDAT (IPO: JMDT; acquired

by Electronic Arts), Nordstrom.com

(acquired by Nordstrom),

Shopping.com (IPO:

SHOP; acquired by eBay),

and The Knot (IPO:

KNOT).

Other Affiliations:Advisory board of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas.

Education:MBA

from the University of Texas, 1993; and a BS in computer science from

the University of Florida, 1989. Chartered Financial Analyst.