The Minutes of Bill Gurley on culture https://minutesof.com/bill-gurley/on/culture/ Everything Bill Gurley has said on culture: 9 verbatim quotes between April 2013 and July 2026, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it came… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:00 +0000 Gurley finds Chinese entrepreneurs have the most cultural affinity with American entrepreneurs globally. https://minutesof.com/q/6f304bac-c4cf-4ded-91cf-2b04bc7b6f51/ https://minutesof.com/q/6f304bac-c4cf-4ded-91cf-2b04bc7b6f51/ “of all the places I've visited around the world, the one place where I find the most cultural affinity between entrepreneurs, between American entrepreneurs and some foreign entrepreneurs, China. Like, the most like mindedness.” — Bill Gurley Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:02:49 +0000 culture Gurley says Chinese entrepreneurs have greatest cultural affinity with American entrepreneurs globally based o https://minutesof.com/q/1b18b742-c7ee-4d44-a3be-9b6f3c35635d/ https://minutesof.com/q/1b18b742-c7ee-4d44-a3be-9b6f3c35635d/ “the one place where I find the most cultural affinity between entrepreneurs, between American entrepreneurs and some foreign entrepreneurs, China. Like, the most like mindedness.” — Bill Gurley Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:02:49 +0000 culture Gurley says most Silicon Valley people have innate FOMO about new technology, installing tools immediately out https://minutesof.com/q/b928c5c8-f58e-474c-a29c-6bd0c80fd9f5/ https://minutesof.com/q/b928c5c8-f58e-474c-a29c-6bd0c80fd9f5/ “most people that live in Silicon Valley just have this innate FOMO built into them about what's next.” — Bill Gurley Fri, 15 May 2026 23:32:47 +0000 culture Gurley explains Benchmark created an equal partnership structure where all partners earn the same and have equ https://minutesof.com/q/9b9770f2-18a2-4c93-86d5-45ef0cd50c1b/ https://minutesof.com/q/9b9770f2-18a2-4c93-86d5-45ef0cd50c1b/ “The benchmark guys had lived within those frameworks decided to do something crazy, which was to create an equal partnership where everyone makes the exact same amount of money and everyone has the exact same power within the organization for decision making and there's no leader.” — Bloomberg Podcasts Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:47:37 +0000 culture Gurley says Nadella diagnosed Microsoft as a know-it-all culture and transformed it into a learn-it-all cultur https://minutesof.com/q/2f3ab552-4b93-4fe6-832f-f083289b0978/ https://minutesof.com/q/2f3ab552-4b93-4fe6-832f-f083289b0978/ “And he said, he told everyone we're gonna change it from a know it all culture to a learn it all culture.” — Brew Markets Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:28:10 +0000 culture Gurley quotes Dan Wong saying America is run by lawyers while China is run by engineers. https://minutesof.com/q/ce5b9934-eba8-47b4-8254-05d030cc2236/ https://minutesof.com/q/ce5b9934-eba8-47b4-8254-05d030cc2236/ “I think Dan Wong does a good job of saying that America is run by lawyers the author of of Breakneck. Our country's run by lawyers and theirs is run by engineers.” — Tim Ferriss Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:45:52 +0000 culture Gurley argues Google lacks the internal culture to partner in win-win ways due to their cage-match business mo https://minutesof.com/q/505da922-466f-490a-9ebf-f63111b147bc/ https://minutesof.com/q/505da922-466f-490a-9ebf-f63111b147bc/ “In addition to everything I brought up, because their core business model is to throw their customers in a cage match, they don't they don't have the culture internally to partner in a friendly win win way.” — BG2 Pod Thu, 08 Feb 2024 19:35:00 +0000 culture Gurley says Wall Street's anti-loyal mentality focused on cash over equity hurts startup culture in New York. https://minutesof.com/q/ca5bd905-054f-47cf-a833-dde7bbc484d4/ https://minutesof.com/q/ca5bd905-054f-47cf-a833-dde7bbc484d4/ “I formerly worked on Wall Street years ago and I think the Wall Street mentality is still prevalent in different places. And I consider that a very anti loyal mentality.” — TechCrunch Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:27:35 +0000 culture Gurley says Wall Street's anti-loyalty mentality focused on cash over equity hurts New York startups. https://minutesof.com/q/6d5a9fd4-a1ab-4fcb-a132-79e46ad34e74/ https://minutesof.com/q/6d5a9fd4-a1ab-4fcb-a132-79e46ad34e74/ “And I consider that a very anti loyal mentality. People just trade firms constantly and they're really into cash comp and they don't think about equity.” — TechCrunch Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:27:35 +0000 culture