<story><title>Bill Gurley Is Leaving Uber’s Board</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/technology/uber-board-bill-gurley.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&amp;smid=nytcore-iphone-share</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>goodriddance</author><text>For all the future founders on HN, the lesson here is to never do business with Bill Gurley. He&amp;#x27;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.&lt;p&gt;The Ravikant v. Tolia (and Bill Gurley) Lawsuit:
&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.ericgoldman.org&amp;#x2F;personal&amp;#x2F;archives&amp;#x2F;2005&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;ravikant_v_toli.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.ericgoldman.org&amp;#x2F;personal&amp;#x2F;archives&amp;#x2F;2005&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;ravika...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Bill Gurley Is Leaving Uber’s Board</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/technology/uber-board-bill-gurley.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&amp;smid=nytcore-iphone-share</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johan_larson</author><text>I remain flabbergasted by all of this upheaval at Uber. What&amp;#x27;s happening is the sort of housecleaning I would expect if the company had to file for bankruptcy or got caught flat out bribing judges or something. But really, what triggered all this was acting like jerks.&lt;p&gt;It seems to me, what should have happened (a long time ago) was that they got shut down for systematically breaking the law, or encouraging others to do so. That would have made sense.&lt;p&gt;But instead they are getting flayed alive by not much more than bad press for being jerks. Makes no goddamn sense.</text></comment>