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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.

~Bill Maris

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If you want to invest in early-stage technologies, putting a timeframe on it does behold you to Silicon Valley economics. You've got a certain time period where you have to make the money. And you have to invest that money whether you find good companies or not.

~Bill Maris

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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.

~Bill Maris

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When you build relationships with entrepreneurs, they're not trying to optimize on price.

~Bill Maris

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Your genome isn't really secret.

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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.

~Bill Maris

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I can make it very clear: I get paid if we make good investments. And if we don't, I don't get paid. I have no incentive to sell our companies to Google; the entrepreneurs get to decide that. We are minority shareholders.

~Bill Maris

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

~Bill Maris

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You want to work with people you are excited about and they are excited about you. It's a two-way street.

~Bill Maris

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You make a great investment in the consumer Internet, maybe you make a lot of money and create something useful, interesting, or fun. But in life sciences, you have a chance to be part of something that lets people live longer and healthier and not lose the people they care about. That is really profound.

~Bill Maris

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: Unknown

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