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Bill Gurley was the Michael Jordan of venture capitalists.

And not just because he was six feet and nine inches tall, Bill belonged to a venture

capital firm that considered themselves the Chicago Bulls of investing.

But like the 1990 Bulls, right?

That's right, agent.

Yeah, I'm ending the 1990s Michael Jordan air Chicago Bulls.

And Bill Gurley was an intellectual who loved thinking about the economic potential of

networks, specifically these tech platforms that are more and more useful the more users

they have, things like Facebook and Yelp and that kind of thing.

And that insight helped him and his venture capital firm make a lot of money investing

in tech platforms like Open Table and Glassdoor.

And Bill was an early investor in Uber.

By 2017, his initial investment had just multiplied in value.

The company was worth billions, but Bill had one problem.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.

This is the indicator from Plata Money.

I'm Adrian Ma.

And I'm Diane Woods.

Silicon Valley's success has a key ingredient venture capital.

These investors who are willing to risk a lot of money for a potential huge profit.

But over the last few decades, venture capitalists have had to invest more and more money

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