Bill Maris: How Google Could Crush AI Competitors, Why Small Funds Win, and AI's Atari Stage
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After saying he was out, now Bill Maris is returning to the investing world. The founding CEO of Google Ventures has raised a $150,000,000 for his new fund called Section thirty two.
With a smaller fund, I have the advantage to be very selective in the companies that I invest in, the people that I hire. We're gonna invest for a financial return. Any other metric is impossible to measure and therefore won't succeed. Think of the change that has happened just in the last hundred years and what's about to happen in the next hundred years with the advent of AI. The world is gonna change by orders of magnitude. Thank you very much for that, warm welcome. I am Bill Maris. I'm the founder of Section thirty two. Prior to that, I was the founder and CEO of Google Ventures. I was al
You guys are old friends.
Yes, we are.
We go way back. Well, Bill's when he started Google Ventures, I was the first ex Google company you invested in.
That's correct. And How did it go? Climate Corp. A billion dollar exit to Monsanto.
What was your multiple? What was the return?
Oof. It I was actually good for you guys.
It was quite good.
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