Bill Maris
speaker
608 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 9 Jun
Bill Maris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm gonna talk about, and we're gonna go back to 1997 to start.
When I was a fresh college graduate, I had a degree in neuroscience, and I found myself on Wall Street somehow, managed to land a job there, but I was miserable having to wear a suit and trudge to work in the heat, but one,
good thing came of that, which was I looked in the closet of the office one day and I saw a server.
And I asked, well, what is this thing beneath our jackets?
And they said, well, that's where our email and websites live.
And as can happen to many of us, I had a moment where I felt like I was bathed in the light of inspiration.
And I thought,
I think I've glimpsed the future.
I think I can maybe make a business out of this, because if you can have our website and email in your closet, how many websites and emails could I put in my closet?
So I immediately quit my job, because I had kind of glimpsed through a keyhole, and through that keyhole, I thought I saw the internet, and I saw a data center, and it looked something like this.
Or maybe when I say data center,
You think of something like this or something like this.
But in 1997, a state-of-the-art data center looked almost exactly like this.
We had three servers, a small, medium, and large.
Business grew.
We eventually had five servers.
And this isn't a data center at all.
This was my apartment where I founded the company with credit cards.
And the servers lived in one room.
The work happened in the other room.
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