Best quotes by Bill Maris on People
Checkout quotes by Bill Maris on People
-
‟ You want to work with people you are excited about and they are excited about you. It's a two-way street.
- Bill Maris
-
‟ We're looking for people who are working on things that seem out of reach, uncomfortably difficult.
- Bill Maris
-
‟ Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that.
- Bill Maris
-
‟ 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.
- Bill Maris
-
‟ 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
-
‟ 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 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
-
‟ 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
-
‟ 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