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Bill Gurley

Bill Gurley is a general partner at Benchmark, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California. He is listed consistently on the Forbes Midas List and is considered one of technology’s top dealmakers.

34 Recommended books from Bill Gurley

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  • Startup

    by Jerry Kaplan August 5, 2021 History

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    4.4 stars

    39 ratings

    Kaplan, a well-known figure in the computer industry, founded GO Corporation in 1987, and for several years it was one of the h...

  • The Billionaire Shell Game

    by L. J. Davis September 15, 1998 Business & Money

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    4.7 stars

    7 ratings

    In 1992, John Malone, the brilliant, hard-nosed, and widely feared CEO of cable giant TCI, announced that the 500-channel infor...

  • The Most Important Thing

    by Howard Marks May 1, 2011 Business & Money

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    4.6 stars

    999 ratings

    Howard Marks, the chairman and cofounder of Oaktree Capital Management, is renowned for his insightful assessments of market op...

  • The Most Important Thing Illuminated

    by Howard Marks January 15, 2013 Business & Money

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    4.5 stars

    567 ratings

    Howard Marks's The Most Important Thing distilled the investing insight of his celebrated client memos into a single volume and...

  • The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

    by David Ricardo June 11, 2004 Politics & Social Sciences

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    4.5 stars

    88 ratings

    This landmark treatise of 1817 formulated the guiding principles behind the market economy. Author David Ricardo, with Adam Smi...

  • The Rational Optimist

    by Matt Ridley July 22, 2021 Business & Money

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    4.5 stars

    1,174 ratings

    “Ridley writes with panache, wit, and humor and displays remarkable ingenuity in finding ways to present complicated materials ...

  • The Sixth Man

    by Andre Iguodala July 25, 2021 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.5 stars

    839 ratings

    The Instant National Bestseller

    The standout memoir from NBA powerhouse Andre Iguodala, the indomitable sixth man of the Gol...

  • The Storytelling Animal

    by Jonathan Gottschall August 5, 2021 Literature & Fiction

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    4.3 stars

    462 ratings

    A New York Times Editor's Choice

    A Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Finalist

    "A jaunty, insightful new book . . . [that] d...

  • The Success Equation

    by Michael Mauboussin November 6, 2012 Science & Math

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    4.4 stars

    155 ratings

    “Much of what we experience in life results from a combination of skill and luck.” — From the Introduction

    The trick, of cou...

  • The Wealth of Nations

    by Adam Smith March 4, 2003 History

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    4.5 stars

    2,161 ratings

    It is symbolic that Adam Smith’s masterpiece of economic analysis, The Wealth of Nations, was first published in 1776, the same...

  • Think Twice

    by Michael Mauboussin October 6, 2009 Science & Math

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    4.5 stars

    119 ratings

    Leaders in all fields-business, medicine, law, government-make crucial decisions every day. The harsh truth is that they misman...

  • Valuation

    by Marc Goedhart and Tim Koller August 5, 2021 Business & Money

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    4.7 stars

    227 ratings

    McKinsey & Company's #1 best-selling guide to corporate valuation―the fully updated seventh edition

    Valuation has been the f...

  • Virus of the Mind

    by Richard Brodie May 15, 2009 Health, Fitness & Dieting

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    4.4 stars

    230 ratings

    Virus of the Mind is the first popular book devoted to the science of memetics, a controversial new field that transcends psy...

  • Why We Get Fat

    by Gary Taubes December 27, 2011 Crafts, Hobbies & Home

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    4.5 stars

    3,865 ratings

    What’s making us fat? And how can we change? Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fres...

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