Bill is a general Partner at Benchmark for over 20 years. Prior to Benchmark, partner with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Prior to that, Bill spent four years on Wall Street as a top-ranked research analyst, including three years at CS First Boston focusing on personal computer hardware and software. Research coverage included such companies as Dell, Compaq, and Microsoft, and he was the lead analyst on the Amazon IPO. In both 1995 and 1996, was a member of the Institutional Investor All-American Research Team. Prior to his investment career, was a design engineer at Compaq Computer, where he worked on products such as the 486/50 and Compaq’s first multi-processor server. For the past fifteen years, has authored the Above the Crowd blog which focuses on the evolution and economics of high technology businesses.