Quotes by Bill Maris

Bill Maris

American entrepreneur and venture capitalist

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  All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google's mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible.

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  Antibiotics are so pervasive that they are often prescribed preemptively, as soon as patients report symptoms, before a diagnosis is made.

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  As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications.

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  As life expectancy extends beyond 80 years in some parts of the world, more people are struggling with brain diseases. For older people, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other conditions become a major impediment to quality of life.

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  Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money.

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  CEOs who can hire properly, that's the most important part of the job. The CEO's job is really to hire the right team and execute the vision second.

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  During the 2000 bubble, many companies rushed to go public before they had any revenue.

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  Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed.

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  Google was a venture-funded company. Being part of that brings an energy to the company.

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  Government is really successful when it's willing to make big, bold objectives, like, 'We're going to get to the moon.' But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck.

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  Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.

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  I'm interested in the ideas that sound a little crazy, such as radical life extension, curing cancer, being able to create a simulation of the human brain and map every neuron.

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  I'm not bothered when other VCs start hiring great designers or start recruiting. That's the direction I'd like it to go.

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  If I were to leave and raise a venture fund, I would have to find 10 or 100 LPs. They would all give me a bunch of money, and I would take a percentage of that to pay myself. They would expect me to invest that over the next three years, and they want that money back in seven or eight years.

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  If I'm an entrepreneur, and I have a term sheet from Sequoia and Kleiner, that's the safe choice. Google Ventures is the brave choice.