Bill Maris Quotes

The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.

Bill Maris

• Reality
• Innovation
• Regulation

There are a lot of billionaires in Silicon Valley, but in the end, we are all heading to the same place. If given the choice between making a lot of money or finding a way to make people live longer, what do you choose?

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• Money
• Choice
• Silicon Valley

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

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• Succeed
• Companies
• Ventures

Time is the one thing I can't get back and can't give back to you.

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• Give
• Time Is

We make a series of investments, some will pan out and some won't.

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• Investments
• Pan

We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision. I just hope to live long enough not to die.

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• Hope
• Achieve
• Sciences

There are a number of start-ups in Europe that are able to reach beyond their own country. Take Spotify - Spotify just in Sweden isn't that interesting compared to Spotify all over the world.

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• Interesting
• Reach
• Spotify

With a regular venture fund, you raise, let's say, a billion dollars, and then over the next three or four years, you've got to invest that money; otherwise, the people who invested with you will say, 'What are you doing? You're just collecting fees on our money.'

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• Money
• Invest
• Collecting

I sign off not only every investment, but every dollar that goes out the door - I'm aware of it.

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• Door
• Investment
• Sign

If you're a technology investor, and you decide that you're also going to be a healthcare investor or a green-tech investor, that doesn't usually work out that well. There are reasons why people make their careers studying these things and becoming experts.

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• Health care
• Reasons
• Experts