The Minutes of Bill Gurley on smartphones https://minutesof.com/bill-gurley/on/smartphones/ Everything Bill Gurley has said on smartphones: 1 verbatim quote from December 2012, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it came from. en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:07 +0000 Gurley explains Uber was impossible before smartphones due to cost of installing embedded systems in cars. https://minutesof.com/q/e62c07e2-423e-4543-9cbb-49b9043a05f6/ https://minutesof.com/q/e62c07e2-423e-4543-9cbb-49b9043a05f6/ “You're not going to go install 700 embedded systems designs in every car and the wireless and build the contracts. You're not going to do all that.” — GigaOm Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:06:49 +0000 smartphones