Bill Maris

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

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I find myself somehow at Google, and a challenge was given to me.

The challenge was Google needs a venture fund.

We were starting to make some investments.

We didn't have a coherent strategy.

There were no budgets.

I had to figure out what to do.

So I first found a friend, Rich Miner.

He's the co-founder of Android.

And he became my partner in crime as we conceptualized what could Google Ventures be.

We went up and down Sand Hill Road, and we

We talked to everyone.

Anyone that was willing to talk to us and have a conversation, we were willing to talk to to see what we could learn.

We came up with a plan.

Our plan was to obtain all the data of venture that we could find.

And being Google, you can imagine it was a lot of data, historical data, you name it.

Then we decided we would, as step two, use AI, but at that time,

Google would not let us use the term AI.

And this persisted for many years.

Bill, AI is science fiction.

It's 100 years away if it's ever going to happen.

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