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" Antibiotics are so pervasive that they are often prescribed preemptively, as soon as patients report symptoms, before a diagnosis is made. "
Bill Maris
Before
Soon
Diagnosis
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" When you build relationships with entrepreneurs, they're not trying to optimize on price. "
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You
Trying
" If you're a technology investor, and you decide that you're also going to be a healthcare investor or a green-tech investor, that doesn't usually work out that well. There are reasons why people make their careers studying these things and becoming experts. "
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Work
People
" There are a lot of billionaires in Silicon Valley, but in the end, we are all heading to the same place. If given the choice between making a lot of money or finding a way to make people live longer, what do you choose? "
Bill Maris
Live
Choice
End
" CEOs who can hire properly, that's the most important part of the job. The CEO's job is really to hire the right team and execute the vision second. "
Bill Maris
Important
Who
Vision
" Your genome isn't really secret. "
Bill Maris
Genome
Really
Secret
" Big ideas we tend to like are the ones that seem impossible or crazy. "
Bill Maris
Like
Impossible
Ideas
" If I were to leave and raise a venture fund, I would have to find 10 or 100 LPs. They would all give me a bunch of money, and I would take a percentage of that to pay myself. They would expect me to invest that over the next three years, and they want that money back in seven or eight years. "
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Me
Find
Money
" The reality is if you were going to die tomorrow, and someone offered you another 10 years, most people would take those 10 years. "
Bill Maris
Die
People
Reality
" People talk about the redistribution of wealth a lot, which is a very valid topic. But what about the redistribution of health? That's even more concentrated at the top. "
Bill Maris
Wealth
Talk
People
" Time is the one thing I can't get back and can't give back to you. "
Bill Maris
Back
You
Time
" We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision. I just hope to live long enough not to die. "
Bill Maris
Life
Long
You
" Organizing healthcare information is a daunting task, but it is not an impossible task. We've had people walk on the moon. This is a lot more doable. "
Bill Maris
Task
Impossible
Moon
" Venture funds get beaten up for not investing in important things. Okay, if you want venture funds to invest in important things, then don't penalize or make fun of them when those important things don't work. "
Bill Maris
Important
Fun
You
" With a regular venture fund, you raise, let's say, a billion dollars, and then over the next three or four years, you've got to invest that money; otherwise, the people who invested with you will say, 'What are you doing? You're just collecting fees on our money.' "
Bill Maris
People
Money
Doing
" There are a number of start-ups in Europe that are able to reach beyond their own country. Take Spotify - Spotify just in Sweden isn't that interesting compared to Spotify all over the world. "
Bill Maris
Reach
Own
Interesting
" Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed. "
Bill Maris
Succeed
Financial
Google
" I would draw a really big distinction between competition, or potential competition, and a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest implies wrongdoing, whereas competition is really healthy. "
Bill Maris
Competition
Big
Potential
" We can get much better outcomes from people if we understand the genetic basis of the exact cancer that they have, what interventions might be most effective against it, what's worked in the past and what hasn't. "
Bill Maris
Cancer
Understand
People
" We make a series of investments, some will pan out and some won't. "
Bill Maris
Pan
Make
Investments
" When you apply computer science and machine learning to areas that haven't had any innovation in 50 years, you can make rapid advances that seem really incredible. "
Bill Maris
Science
You
Learning
" Healthcare is becoming part of information technology. "
Bill Maris
Information
Healthcare
Technology
" If you want to invest in early-stage technologies, putting a timeframe on it does behold you to Silicon Valley economics. You've got a certain time period where you have to make the money. And you have to invest that money whether you find good companies or not. "
Bill Maris
Money
Good
Find
" The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation. "
Bill Maris
Regulation
Reality
Innovation
" I'm interested in the ideas that sound a little crazy, such as radical life extension, curing cancer, being able to create a simulation of the human brain and map every neuron. "
Bill Maris
Map
Ideas
Create