One of the most interesting professions anyone can have in the finance area today is that of an angel investor. Even if you remotely track the history of many of today’s big unicorns, you know that it ...

About 30 gig economy employees, mostly Uber drivers, on Nov. 6 protested outside the Atherton home of Bill Gurley, a venture capitalist and investor in the ride-hailing company. Protesters ...

but Benchmark's Bill Gurley is our clear #1. Gurley has been investing for over a decade. Two of his firm's investments became multiple billion-dollar companies this year, Snapchat and Uber.