The Minutes of Bill Gurley on platforms https://minutesof.com/bill-gurley/on/platforms/ Everything Bill Gurley has said on platforms: 3 verbatim quotes between July 2023 and August 2026, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:03 +0000 Gurley wonders if LinkedIn had avoided monetizing InMail like Twitter it could have hosted powerful conversati https://minutesof.com/q/c01264f9-8098-4469-9cda-8289eb3da654/ https://minutesof.com/q/c01264f9-8098-4469-9cda-8289eb3da654/ “I've wondered over the years if LinkedIn hadn't polluted their InMail and made it monetized. Yep. And they had done what Twitter did, how much of the most powerful conversations in the world would happen?” — BlackNova Productions Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:36:09 +0000 platforms Gurley identifies email and podcasting as content forms structurally resistant to platform control due to thei https://minutesof.com/q/a27ed367-6bf8-4986-867e-f3868fd70949/ https://minutesof.com/q/a27ed367-6bf8-4986-867e-f3868fd70949/ “And email and podcasting are two content forms where there's no evil overlord that control. They're they're both these highly distributed things just by the way they're technically implemented.” — Tim Ferriss Thu, 20 Jul 2023 20:37:52 +0000 platforms Gurley speculates LinkedIn's InMail monetization prevented it from capturing powerful conversations like Twitt https://minutesof.com/q/d174e826-4488-424d-83f4-92deb9631905/ https://minutesof.com/q/d174e826-4488-424d-83f4-92deb9631905/ “I've wondered over the years if LinkedIn hadn't polluted their InMail and made it monetize and they had done what Twitter did, how much of the most powerful conversations in the world would” — Tim Ferriss Thu, 20 Jul 2023 20:37:52 +0000 platforms