John William Gurley, CFA (born May 10, 1966) 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[1][2] and is considered one of technology’s top dealmakers.[3][4]
Education and early career[edit]
John William Gurley was born in Dickinson, Texas, outside of Houston, on May 10, 1966. Gurley graduated from the University of Florida in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science degree.[5] While at the University of Florida, he was a member of the men’s basketball team.[5] Gurley received his Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas McCombs School of Business in 1993.[6]
Prior to his investment career, Gurley was a design engineer at Compaq Computer, where he worked on products such as the 486/50 and Compaq's first multi-processor server. Before Compaq, he worked in the technical marketing group of Advanced Micro Devices' embedded processor division.[7] With both a financial and engineering background he “has a way of sizing things up that makes him both intriguing and highly quotable."[8]
Gurley was a partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. He had also spent four years on Wall Street as a research analyst, including three years at CS First Boston. He was considered “one of Wall Street’s premier technology analysts."[9] He covered companies including Dell, Compaq and Microsoft and was the lead analyst on the Amazon.com IPO.[10]
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