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Bill Gurley Is Leaving Uber’s Board

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198 points 101carl | 1 comments | 22 Jun 17 00:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.317s | source
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goodriddance ◴[22 Jun 17 01:41 UTC] No.14609529[source]▶
For all the future founders on HN, the lesson here is to never do business with Bill Gurley. He's one of the reasons AngelList exists. I hope his lesser known reputation finally catches up with him and forces him out of Benchmark and out of the VC industry entirely.

The Ravikant v. Tolia (and Bill Gurley) Lawsuit: http://blog.ericgoldman.org/personal/archives/2005/02/ravika...

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JajaMan ◴[22 Jun 17 02:32 UTC] No.14609724[source]▶
I've never heard of the guy, whats hew known for? Also what's wrong with angellist?
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goodriddance ◴[22 Jun 17 02:36 UTC] No.14609740[source]▶
Everything you need to know is linked to on that page I linked to.

Nothing is wrong with AngelList. AngelList is great. It was Bill Gurley's slimey VC actions to conspire with Nirav Tolia against the other Epinions founders and early employees that led Naval Ravikant to found AngelList as an alternative to the VC system.

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jcrben ◴[22 Jun 17 05:09 UTC] No.14610237[source]▶
That article doesn't say much. Which link in it has the meat?
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1. goodriddance ◴[22 Jun 17 05:35 UTC] No.14610291[source]▶
The first link which is the actual claim filed in a US court of law.