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.

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  The founding CEO of Google Ventures has raised $150 million for his new fund called Section 32. With a smaller fund,

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  I have the advantage to be very selective in the companies that I invest in, the people that I hire.

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  We're going to invest for a financial return.

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  Any other metric is impossible to measure and therefore won't succeed.

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  Think of the change that has happened just in the last hundred

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  years and what's about to happen in the next hundred years with the advent of AI.

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  The world's going to change by orders of magnitude.

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  Thank you very much for that warm welcome.

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  I am Bill Maris.

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  I'm the founder of Section 32. Prior to that, I was the founder and CEO of Google Ventures.

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  I was also Google's vice president of special projects where I incubated Waymo and Google X, Calico,

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  and many other projects as well.

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  Before that, I founded a web hosting and data center company, which we're going to talk a little bit about.

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  Today I think I'm going to talk to you about a few of the lessons

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  I've learned on these interesting experiences I've had in life.

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  So we'll start, we're going to have four lessons I'm going to talk about.

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  And we're going to go back to 1997 to start when I was a fresh college graduate.

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  I had a degree in neuroscience and I found myself on Wall Street somehow, managed to land a job there.

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  But I was miserable having to wear a suit and tried to work in the heat.

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