Bill Maris
Bill Maris
Bill Maris is a venture capitalist and the CEO at GV, a venture capital firm established by Maris and funded through Alphabet. With approximately $2.4 billion under management and investments in Uber and Nest, the six-year-old fund is described as one of the hottest in Silicon Valley. Maris oversees all of GV’s funding activity and has a particular interest in next generation life sciences and artificial intelligence. He was instrumental in the formation of Google’s Calico project...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
Big ideas we tend to like are the ones that seem impossible or crazy.
When you build relationships with entrepreneurs, they're not trying to optimize on price.
All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google's mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible.
Antibiotics are so pervasive that they are often prescribed preemptively, as soon as patients report symptoms, before a diagnosis is made.
During the 2000 bubble, many companies rushed to go public before they had any revenue.
Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed.
Google was a venture-funded company. Being part of that brings an energy to the company.
I contemplated a career at NIH at one point. I have a neuroscience background.
I sign off not only every investment, but every dollar that goes out the door - I'm aware of it.
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.
Organizing healthcare information is a daunting task, but it is not an impossible task. We've had people walk on the moon. This is a lot more doable.
Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital.
The reality is if you were going to die tomorrow, and someone offered you another 10 years, most people would take those 10 years.
The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.