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      <title>Well, biggest mistake I made in my career is when I was three years into the venture capital business, I met L</title>
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      <description>“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</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gurley reveals he met Larry and Sergey when Google had 25 employees but Benchmark failed to invest.</title>
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      <description>“I met Larry and Sergey at their office with 25 employees. They pitched Benchmark, and we failed to invest” — Forbes</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>They had 25 employees at the time, to tell you how early it was. And they presented and we failed to chase tha</title>
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      <description>“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</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gurley says missing Google at 25 employees was his biggest career mistake, not failed investments.</title>
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      <description>“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</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gurley admits pattern recognition decays; anti-small-business bias from Intuit caused VCs to miss HubSpot, Sho</title>
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      <description>“And so you develop this anti small business mindset, which keeps you out of HubSpot and Shopify and Twilio.” — Invest Like the Best</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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