The Minutes of Bill Gurley on google https://minutesof.com/bill-gurley/on/google/ Everything Bill Gurley has said on google: 16 verbatim quotes between October 2019 and August 2026, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:21:59 +0000 Well, biggest mistake I made in my career is when I was three years into the venture capital business, I met L https://minutesof.com/q/04752b21-480d-4192-9f36-1766cb3bfdb3/ https://minutesof.com/q/04752b21-480d-4192-9f36-1766cb3bfdb3/ “Well, biggest mistake I made in my career is when I was three years into the venture capital business, I met Larry and Sergey at their office with 25 employees.” — Forbes Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:11:11 +0000 google Gurley reveals he met Larry and Sergey when Google had 25 employees but Benchmark failed to invest. https://minutesof.com/q/324c3d29-cfe7-4d90-a852-e96208594306/ https://minutesof.com/q/324c3d29-cfe7-4d90-a852-e96208594306/ “I met Larry and Sergey at their office with 25 employees. They pitched Benchmark, and we failed to invest” — Forbes Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:11:11 +0000 google Gurley says he brought Larry and Sergei to his partnership but failed to chase the Google investment. https://minutesof.com/q/c7a6d3c5-c7c3-46c9-b80d-5bdb811cf81b/ https://minutesof.com/q/c7a6d3c5-c7c3-46c9-b80d-5bdb811cf81b/ “I met Larry and Sergei, was very early in my career, I brought them into the partnership and they presented and we failed to lay chase.” — School of Hard Knocks Podcast Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:34:25 +0000 google They had 25 employees at the time, to tell you how early it was. And they presented and we failed to chase tha https://minutesof.com/q/7a195e79-0aae-44db-94ee-f0f316ba0775/ https://minutesof.com/q/7a195e79-0aae-44db-94ee-f0f316ba0775/ “They had 25 employees at the time, to tell you how early it was. And they presented and we failed to chase that.” — Afford Anything Podcast Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:00:04 +0000 google Gurley clarifies Google presented to Benchmark at 25 employees shortly after he joined the firm. https://minutesof.com/q/ca552e7d-f09a-464d-b7f3-4fdfef5e1836/ https://minutesof.com/q/ca552e7d-f09a-464d-b7f3-4fdfef5e1836/ “I had Larry and Sergei present to the Benchmark partnership shortly after I joined Benchmark with the company had 25 employees, Google.” — Lux Capital Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:19:27 +0000 google Gurley brought Larry and Sergey to Benchmark at 25 employees but the firm failed to invest in Google. https://minutesof.com/q/01f70b00-ec3b-436a-8ae4-0640c38a5d44/ https://minutesof.com/q/01f70b00-ec3b-436a-8ae4-0640c38a5d44/ “I had the, both the fortune and now the, the kind of weight of having brought Larry and Sergey in to present to our partnership when they were 25 employees.” — Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:34:22 +0000 google Gurley says his biggest career mistake was not pursuing Google when Larry and Sergei presented at 25 employees https://minutesof.com/q/add8221b-3250-43ae-a370-e08312af5339/ https://minutesof.com/q/add8221b-3250-43ae-a370-e08312af5339/ “The there's a there's a notion in venture capital about asymmetric risks. So if you if you you know, the biggest mistake of my career is I had Larry and Sergei present to the partnership when there were 25 employees at Google and we failed to chase the deal.” — Yahoo Finance Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:00:06 +0000 google Gurley says missing Google at 25 employees was his biggest career mistake, not failed investments. https://minutesof.com/q/ec2ca988-9456-495b-b912-425f22c920d1/ https://minutesof.com/q/ec2ca988-9456-495b-b912-425f22c920d1/ “I had Larry and Sergei present to the partnership when there were 25 employees at Google and we failed to chase the deal.” — Yahoo Finance Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:00:06 +0000 google Gurley explains missing Google despite negative signs including Yahoo's collapse and Larry and Sergey both wan https://minutesof.com/q/9dfc2aff-ebe0-466f-b6fc-088bff42a3c5/ https://minutesof.com/q/9dfc2aff-ebe0-466f-b6fc-088bff42a3c5/ “These were other search companies, right, at the time. Right. Larry and Sergey both wanted to be CEO and they were PhD students at Stanford.” — McCombs School of Business Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:57:51 +0000 google Gurley explains Google's revenue per visit will fall with completed transactions because advertisers pay less https://minutesof.com/q/4501a6cf-9ca9-44e6-abfb-22019280aba1/ https://minutesof.com/q/4501a6cf-9ca9-44e6-abfb-22019280aba1/ “Because someone is spending marketing dollars to take that customer to their website and run the transaction with the hopes that they'll come directly back to that website.” — BG2 Pod Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:46:51 +0000 google 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 google Gurley argues OpenAI wouldn't exist if Google's attention mechanism paper had been patented instead of open-so https://minutesof.com/q/7229045e-4ebd-4c99-ab12-e4521d7c749b/ https://minutesof.com/q/7229045e-4ebd-4c99-ab12-e4521d7c749b/ “This concept was done inside of Google as an open source concept, immediately copied by all the other players. So OpenAI doesn't exist today if that's patented and controlled.” — Bg2 Pod Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:05:50 +0000 google Gurley notes the two best VCs at the time, Doerr and Moritz, invested in Google when he passed. https://minutesof.com/q/bbcbbfe2-1a8d-4450-974a-7bb0c250e7da/ https://minutesof.com/q/bbcbbfe2-1a8d-4450-974a-7bb0c250e7da/ “I'd like to highlight, and I always do, the two best venture capitalists in the world at the time, John Doerr and Mike Maritz, kinda locked hands and said yes.” — Tim Ferriss Thu, 26 Jan 2023 19:45:00 +0000 google Gurley traces Silicon Valley's criticism of IPO unfairness through eBay, Hambrick and Quist, and Google's Dutc https://minutesof.com/q/f9cc217d-d366-4933-abb8-1c623971a9b6/ https://minutesof.com/q/f9cc217d-d366-4933-abb8-1c623971a9b6/ “Pierro Midiard had at eBay calling it undemocratic. You know, Hambrick and Quist, Bill Hambrick, twenty years ago called the IPO an insider's game.” — Bloomberg Tech Wed, 02 Oct 2019 18:47:29 +0000 google