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Bill Gurley

General partner at Benchmark Capital; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO; writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.

5 books on the record · 15 Nov 2017 – 15 Nov 2017 · @bgurley

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

loved it

Catastrophic Care by David Goldhill

he wrote a fascinating book and I think uncovered all the things about the US healthcare system that kind of undermine its success.

on a podcast · 15 Nov 2017

loved it

Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen

Innovator's Dilemma is probably the most efficient analysis of why startups are able to disrupt.

on a podcast · 15 Nov 2017

liked it

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens I read recently, which I really enjoyed.

on a podcast · 15 Nov 2017

loved it

Startup by Jerry Kaplan

it's the most real startup journey that's ever been written, and it's actually more real because it didn't work.

on a podcast · 15 Nov 2017

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.