Bill Gurley. Education and early career[edit] Gurley was born in Dickinson, Texas, outside of Houston, on May 10, 1966.
Gurley received his MBA from the University of Texas in 1993 and his Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida in 1989, where he was a member of the men’s basketball team.[3] Prior to his investment career, Gurley was a design engineer at Compaq Computer, where he worked on products such as the 486/50 and Compaq's first multi-processor server. Before Compaq, he worked in the technical marketing group of Advanced Micro Devices' embedded processor division.[4] With both a financial/business and engineering background he “has a way of sizing things up that makes him both intriguing and highly quotable. Bill Gurley.