When Bill Gurley enters a room, people notice. It’s hard not to: He is a towering 6’8”. And for those well-versed in tech, Gurley is one of the most famous venture capitalists of the last decade—even becoming a main character in the 2022 Showtime television series on Uber, Super Pumped, which highlighted Gurley’s role as one of the first investors to back Travis Kalanick, then later a key player in pushing him out of the company.
But ever since Gurley and his wife, Amy, quietly sold their home in San Francisco and moved into a skyscraper in downtown Austin, Tex., he’s enjoyed more anonymity than usual. And his move back to Texas, where he and his wife are originally from, has largely gone unnoticed until I heard his name thrown around a couple times last week during a trip to Austin and some journalistic sleuthing revealed he had purchased a place. That subtlety, he says, was by design.
