Bill Gurley

**John William Gurley** (an haife shi a ranar 10 ga Mayu, 1966) ɗan jari-hujja ne na Amurka. Babban abokin tarayya ne a Benchmark, wani kamfanin jari-hujja na Silicon Valley da ke San Francisco, California .

## Ilimi da farkon aiki
An haifi John William Gurley a Dickinson, Texas, a wajen Houston, a ranar 10 ga Mayu, 1966. Gurley ya kammala karatunsa daga Jami'ar Florida a shekarar 1989 da digirin farko na Kimiyya. Yayin da yake Jami'ar Florida, ya kasance memba na ƙungiyar ƙwallon kwando ta maza.  Gurley ya sami digirinsa na biyu na Gudanar da Kasuwanci daga Makarantar Kasuwanci ta Jami'ar Texas McCombs a shekarar 1993. 

Kafin ya fara aikin saka hannun jari, Gurley injiniyan ƙira ne a Compaq Computer, inda ya yi aiki a kan kayayyaki kamar 486/50 da kuma uwar garken Compaq mai sarrafawa da yawa na farko. Kafin Compaq, ya yi aiki a ƙungiyar tallan fasaha ta sashin sarrafa na'urori masu sarrafawa na AMD . 

Gurley abokin tarayya ne a Hummer Winblad Venture Partners . Ya yi shekaru huɗu a Wall Street a matsayin mai sharhi kan bincike, ciki har da shekaru uku a CS First Boston . Marubuci Jeffrey Pfeffer ya kira shi "ɗaya daga cikin manyan masu sharhi kan fasaha na Wall Street."  Ya yi aiki a kamfanoni ciki har da Dell, Compaq da Microsoft kuma shi ne babban mai sharhi kan Amazon.com IPO. 

## Ma'aunin Matsayi
A Benchmark, Gurley ya jagoranci saka hannun jari a kuma riƙe (ko riƙe) kujerun kwamitin a kan Brighter, DogVacay,  Good Eggs,  GrubHub, HackerOne,  Linden Lab, LiveOps, Nextdoor, OpenTable, Sailthru,  Scale Computing,  Stitch Fix,  Vessel,  da Zillow . 

Sauran jarin da ya zuba sun haɗa da: Avamar Technologies (wanda EMC Corporation ta saya), Business.com (wanda RH Donnelley ta saya), Clicker.com (wanda CBS Interactive ta saya), Demandforce (wanda Intuit ta saya), Employease (wanda ADP, Inc. ta saya), JAMDAT Mobile (wanda Electronic Arts ta saya), Nordstrom.com (wanda Nordstrom ta saya), Shopping.com (wanda eBay ta saya), The Knot, Uber, da Vudu (wanda Walmart ta saya).  Yana cikin jerin  Midas . 

## Koma bayan tattalin arziki na 2008
Da durkushewar tattalin arziki a kaka ta 2008, Gurley ya jawo hankali  lokacin da ya aika da wasiƙa  ga kamfanoninsa na fayil, yana ba shugabannin kamfanoni shawara su yi taka tsantsan wajen kashe kuɗi amma su nemi kuma su yi amfani da damar  da za su samu a lokacin mawuyacin lokaci na tattalin arziki. A cikin wata hira da Gurley ya yi da shi a shekarar 2015, ya ce game da saka hannun jari a fannin fasaha mai zaman kansa, "Ina da yakinin cewa Silicon Valley da kasuwancin da ke samun goyon bayan kamfanoni sun shiga duniyar da take da hasashe kuma ba za a iya jurewa ba."  Gargaɗin Gurley, da rubuce-rubucensa a shafinsa na yanar gizo,  Sama da Jama'a, game da kashe kuɗin jari na kamfani, an tattauna su sosai a masana'antar.  

## Kyaututtuka
A watan Maris na 2016, an nada Gurley a matsayin VC na Shekara a bikin bayar da kyaututtuka na Crunchies na TechCrunch na shekara-shekara. 

## Mai sukar harkokin banki a fannin saka hannun jari
Gurley ya kasance mai goyon bayan jerin kamfanoni kai tsaye, madadin bayar da kayayyaki na farko na jama'a a matsayin hanyar bayyana ra'ayin jama'a.  Ya yi jayayya cewa farashin yin rijistar kamfanoni a Amurka da IPO na gargajiya ya yi yawa, musamman ga kamfanonin fasaha da ke da goyon bayan jari.  Matsalar, a ganinsa, ita ce bankunan saka hannun jari a matsakaicin farashin tayin da ya yi ƙasa da abin da masu zuba jari ke son biya, wanda ke haifar da kamfanin yana buƙatar sayar da ƙarin hannun jari don tara wani adadin kuɗi. Wannan ƙarin hannun jarin yana rage darajar hannun jarin da masu hannun jari ke riƙe da shi kafin bayarwa, gami da waɗanda suka kafa kamfani da ma'aikata. Tare da jerin kamfanoni kai tsaye, kamfani yana fitar da takardar neman izini kuma hannun jarin ya fara ciniki a farashin da aka ƙayyade ta hanyar wadata da buƙata.

## Uber
Gurley ya bar kwamitin gudanarwa na Uber a watan Yunin 2017. An fitar da sanarwar kwana ɗaya bayan da kamfanin ya sanar da murabus ɗin Shugaba Travis Kalanick bayan watanni da aka shafe ana takaddama kan al'adun kamfanoni na Uber .  

An ruwaito cewa Gurley da farko yana da alaƙa ta kud da kud da Shugaba Travis Kalanick . Shi ne memba mafi himma a hukumar Uber kuma abin da Mr. Kalanick ya fi so shi ne wanda ya fi dacewa da shi . Daga ƙarshe, duk da haka, kamar yadda aka bayyana a Babi na 28 na littafin Mike Isaac mai suna Super Pumped, Gurley ya yi tsokaci game da Kalanick. Gurley ya bayyana goyon bayansa ga Kalanick a shafin Twitter, yana mai cewa "Za a sami shafuka da yawa a cikin littattafan tarihi da aka keɓe ga @travisk - 'yan kasuwa kaɗan ne suka yi tasiri mai ɗorewa a duniya."

A watan Afrilun 2020, *Jaridar Wall Street Journal* ta ruwaito cewa Gurley zai janye daga Benchmark saboda ba ya saka hannun jari a wani sabon asusun da kamfanin jarinsa ke tarawa.  

## A cikin al'adun jama'a
Wani sabon salon Gurley da ɗan wasan kwaikwayo Kyle Chandler ya fito a cikin shirin wasan kwaikwayo na Showtime  . 

## Rayuwa ta sirri
An san Gurley da tsayinsa sama da matsakaicin matsakaici; yana da  .  Sunan shafinsa na yanar gizo, *Above the Crowd,* da kuma littafin *eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists* wanda ke bayanin ƙungiyar Benchmark, duka suna nuni ne da tsayinsa; taken *eBoys* shine "Labarin gaskiya na mutane shida masu tsayi waɗanda suka goyi bayan eBay, Webvan, da sauran kamfanoni masu tasowa na biliyoyin daloli." 

Gurley yana da aure da 'ya'ya uku kuma a halin yanzu yana zaune a Austin, Texas.  

## Manazarta