Bill Maris
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608 appearances
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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 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.
But that's not the most interesting thing about this photo, because in this crowd is someone who, to his friends I'm sure, seemed insane, who also did glimpse the future.
And if we look closely, this gentleman has decided to, I don't know, live stream or record the inauguration on his laptop.
He knew something that those around him didn't know, which is one of the things that I've always looked for in entrepreneurs is they know a secret about the future that most of us don't believe.
Let's fast forward to 2007.
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