Benchmark
At Benchmark, Gurley has led investments in and holds board seats on Brighter, DogVacay, GrubHub, Linden Lab, LiveOps, Nextdoor, OpenTable, Sailthru, Scale Computing, Uber, and Zillow.
Previous investments have included: Avamar Technologies (acquired by EMC Corporation), Business.com (acquired by R.H. Donnelley), Clicker.com (acquired by CBS Interactive), Demandforce (acquired by INTU), Employease (acquired by Automatic Data Processing), JAMDAT Mobile (acquired by Electronic Arts), Nordstrom.com (acquired by Nordstrom), Shopping.com (acquired by eBay), The Knot, and Vudu (acquired by Walmart).
With the economic collapse in the fall of 2008, Gurley garnered attention when he sent a letter to his portfolio companies, advising CEOs to exercise caution in spending but to look for and take advantage of opportunities that become available during harsh economic times.
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