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
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.
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.
I'm not bothered when other VCs start hiring great designers or start recruiting. That's the direction I'd like it to go.
I sign off not only every investment, but every dollar that goes out the door - I'm aware of it.
I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I'd be the first paleo-astronaut.
I contemplated a career at NIH at one point. I have a neuroscience background.
Google was a venture-funded company. Being part of that brings an energy to the company.
Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed.
During the 2000 bubble, many companies rushed to go public before they had any revenue.
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.
Antibiotics are so pervasive that they are often prescribed preemptively, as soon as patients report symptoms, before a diagnosis is made.
All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google's mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible.
When you build relationships with entrepreneurs, they're not trying to optimize on price.
In genomics, there's a massive amount of information in which you can look for patterns and develop insights.