# Bill Price

> Bill Price is a startup investor at OpenView. See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [OpenView](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/openview-venture-partners)
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wprice

Bill Price is a startup investor at OpenView. Bill Price is interested in helping companies achieve the delicate balance between cost containment and greater customer loyalty via their contact centers and other customer-facing operations.Bill founded Driva Solutions, a customer service consultancy, in September 2001. He also co-founded the 10-country LimeBridge Global Alliance and the33-company Global Operations Council (GOC).Driva Solutions has built three principal programs: Contact Optimization, Performance Optimization, and Sourcing Optimization.Prior to forming Driva Solutions, Bill was Amazon.com’s first Vice President of Global Customer Service, responsible for all customer service activities including managing the company’s contact centers in the US, Europe, Japan, and India. During these years, using the basic premises in this book, Amazon reduced its contacts-per-order by over 70% and also scored the second highest-ever customer satisfaction rating for any American company.Before Amazon.com, Bill spent 20 years in customer care and services management starting at McKinsey & Company in San Francisco and Stockholm, as COO and CFO with Automated Call Processing Corporation, and later creating the MCI Enhanced Call Router (ECR) and MCI Call Center Services (CCS) divisions.Bill has authored more than 20 articles and white papers, and the videotapes of his presentations with the University of Washington in 2002 and 2004 continue to be broadcast on television. In 1997 Call Center Magazine named Bill a “Call Center Pioneer” in its first annual award, and in fall 2004 he was asked to be one of the 10 global “CRM Gurus”.Bill received his BA from Dartmouth College and his MBA from Stanford University.

## About OpenView

VC Fund · Boston, United States

OpenView is an expansion stage venture firm that helps grow software companies like Instructure, Kareo, Datadog, and Expensify into market leaders. Through OpenView's Expansion Platform, they help companies hire the best talent, acquire, and retain the right customers and partner with industry leaders so they can dominate their markets.OpenView's focus on the expansion stage makes it suited to provide truly tailored operational support to their portfolio companies.OpenView Partners has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

5 contacts available at OpenView.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bill Price | Senior Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-price-4 |
| Jeff Sutherland | Senior Adviser | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-sutherland |
| Scott Maxwell | Founder and Senior Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-maxwell |
| Ariel Winton-Jones | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ariel-winton-jones |
| Blake Bartlett | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blake-bartlett |

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