The Minutes of Bill Gurley on metaverse https://minutesof.com/bill-gurley/on/metaverse/ Everything Bill Gurley has said on metaverse: 3 verbatim quotes from December 2021, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it came from. en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:07 +0000 Gurley is skeptical of avatar-based work meetings, having done eight such board meetings pre-Zoom. https://minutesof.com/q/81de191d-efc0-41b3-86e1-5142ed60f783/ https://minutesof.com/q/81de191d-efc0-41b3-86e1-5142ed60f783/ “And we've done them. Philip and I have done eight of those board meetings with avatars, and that was pre Zoom.” — Invest Like the Best Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0000 metaverse Gurley argues simpler heuristics go viral faster than complex ones, favoring Discord over Meta's approach. https://minutesof.com/q/81ed8d25-0334-4f44-ad66-05719e0e9135/ https://minutesof.com/q/81ed8d25-0334-4f44-ad66-05719e0e9135/ “Personally, I've always found that simpler heuristics go viral faster than complex ones. And so when I equate what's happening in a Discord or a Twitter space with what's trying to be achieved by Meta.” — Invest Like the Best Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0000 metaverse Gurley would bet on a 500 million user communication platform adding avatars over a perfect avatar system with https://minutesof.com/q/7521fcd3-90e3-4e74-9e69-15a5796b5ca9/ https://minutesof.com/q/7521fcd3-90e3-4e74-9e69-15a5796b5ca9/ “if I had to place a bet on whether someone that had 500,000,000 users on a digital place platform where people are communicating and that they might add avatars or some digital thing that makes it more immersive versus someone that built the perfect digital three d avatar immersive system but doesn't have the users yet?” — Invest Like the Best Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0000 metaverse