Bill Maris

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608 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 9 Jun

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Bill Maris: How Google Could Crush AI Competitors, Why Small Funds Win, and AI's Atari Stage · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

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.

And it would get very hot in that room.

And this was in Vermont.

So I opened the windows and then it would get very cold.

So cold, in fact, that by noon, if you had a glass of water in your desk, it would ice over.

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