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Bill Maris

American Businessman

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As life expectancy extends beyond 80 years in some parts of the world, more people are struggling with brain diseases. For older people, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other conditions become a major impediment to quality of life. Bill Maris

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There are environmental threats to health; there are internal threats to health - genetic conditions, viral threats, diseases like cancer and Parkinson's. And then there are societal and global ones, like poverty and lack of nutrition. And unknown viral threats - everything from a new kind of influenza to hemorrhagic fever. Bill Maris

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Your genome isn't really secret. Bill Maris

Secret Genome Really Your

We make a series of investments, some will pan out and some won't. Bill Maris

Will Out Some Investments Make Series Pan

Time is the one thing I can't get back and can't give back to you. Bill Maris

Time You Back One Thing Give Get The One Thing Thing

The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation. Bill Maris

Reality Innovation Often Behind Regulation

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

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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

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When you build relationships with entrepreneurs, they're not trying to optimize on price. Bill Maris

You Build Relationships Entrepreneurs Price Optimize Trying

I can make it very clear: I get paid if we make good investments. And if we don't, I don't get paid. I have no incentive to sell our companies to Google; the entrepreneurs get to decide that. We are minority shareholders. Bill Maris

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Google was a venture-funded company. Being part of that brings an energy to the company. Bill Maris

Google Energy Part Being Company Brings

You want to work with people you are excited about and they are excited about you. It's a two-way street. Bill Maris

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You make a great investment in the consumer Internet, maybe you make a lot of money and create something useful, interesting, or fun. But in life sciences, you have a chance to be part of something that lets people live longer and healthier and not lose the people they care about. That is really profound. Bill Maris

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Say you have cancer - you have this broad thing we call cancer; we're going to irradiate you and pump this poisonous material into you and hope more of the bad stuff dies than the good. That is going to seem so medieval when we can fix it on a genetic level, and Foundation Medicine is the first step to diagnosing it on a genetic level. Bill Maris

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I used to be a health-care investor a long time ago in the public markets. One thing I learned that we tried to apply here is that investing in small molecules, trying to invest in the next treatment, there's an element of gambling to that. Bill Maris

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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

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To create exponential growth in health care, we need to put tremendous resources and focus behind the best human minds working in this field. Bill Maris

Best Health Care Focus Field Tremendous Resources Minds Put Health Care Behind Human Create Working Exponential Growth Need

As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications. Bill Maris

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Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money. Bill Maris

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During the 2000 bubble, many companies rushed to go public before they had any revenue. Bill Maris

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