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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And there was lightning.
And there was rain.
And I went up there and I tarred the roof.
And I did not glimpse the future in that case because I didn't know when you're tarring the roof that you should start at the far corner and work towards the door rather than the reverse.
And I tarred myself into a corner, but the choice that I faced was either
the servers get electrocuted, or perhaps I get electrocuted, but as an entrepreneur, I was willing to take that risk, which, newsflash, I survived.
My shoes, though, are still stuck on that roof in Vermont, which takes me to lesson two, which is
To see the future, sometimes you need to be a little bit insane.
It may appear to those around you that you are tarring the roof in a thunderstorm.
And to that point, I'm going to share a few slides here that a friend named Stuart Butterfield was kind enough to share with me.
And here's the inauguration in 1989.
And there's someone taking a picture.
That makes sense, probably a film camera in 2005.
It's not very different.
There's still someone back there taking a picture.
And then let's go just four years later to another inauguration.
And if we look closely, it's quite a bit different because now everybody's got a camera.
Everybody's got a camera.
And this was kind of before cameras were mushed into cell phones.
It was kind of around that time it was starting to happen.
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