The Minutes of Bill Gurley on bootstrapping https://minutesof.com/bill-gurley/on/bootstrapping/ Everything Bill Gurley has said on bootstrapping: 4 verbatim quotes from December 2012, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it came from. en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:03 +0000 Gurley calculates that owning 80% of a $30 million exit yields $24 million for the entrepreneur. https://minutesof.com/q/93f3886c-2578-413e-b571-6695b6251de4/ https://minutesof.com/q/93f3886c-2578-413e-b571-6695b6251de4/ “And so if you have a killer product that might elicit a $30,000,000 exit and you can bootstrap and hustle your way and own 80% of it, you know, 80% of 30,000,000 is $24,000,000.” — GigaOm Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:49:11 +0000 bootstrapping Gurley calculates that owning eighty percent of a thirty million dollar exit yields twenty-four million for th https://minutesof.com/q/5938c5fa-f2af-4c79-9aaa-40bb38bb6457/ https://minutesof.com/q/5938c5fa-f2af-4c79-9aaa-40bb38bb6457/ “if you have a killer product that might elicit a $30,000,000 exit and you can bootstrap and hustle your way and own 80% of it, you know, 80% of 30,000,000 is $24,000,000.” — GigaOm Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:49:11 +0000 bootstrapping Gurley cites DP Review, a one-person digital camera review site acquired by Amazon for forty to seventy millio https://minutesof.com/q/f117dfac-51f1-444d-b5ac-45adae440a89/ https://minutesof.com/q/f117dfac-51f1-444d-b5ac-45adae440a89/ “I love this story of DP Review, which is a website for digital camera reviews.” — GigaOm Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:49:11 +0000 bootstrapping Gurley cites DP Review selling to Amazon for $40-70 million as a single-founder bootstrapped success. https://minutesof.com/q/9b63b3bf-47be-4a2e-9553-8ad7e88bd799/ https://minutesof.com/q/9b63b3bf-47be-4a2e-9553-8ad7e88bd799/ “One guy, one founder and Amazon reported, no one knows the exact number, but I've heard anywhere from 40 to $70,000,000 for a single guy.” — GigaOm Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:49:11 +0000 bootstrapping