Bill Maris: How Google Could Crush AI Competitors, Why Small Funds Win, and AI's Atari Stage

After saying he was out, now Bill Maris is returning to the investing world. The founding CEO of Google Ventures has raised $150 million for his new fund called Section 32. 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 going to 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 going to change by orders of magnitude. Thank you very much for that uh warm welcome. I am Bill Maris.

I'm the founder of Section 32. Prior to that, I was the founder and CEO of Google Ventures. I was also Google's vice president of special projects, where I incubated Waymo and Google X, Calico, and many other projects as well. And before that, I founded a web hosting and data center company, which we're going to talk a little bit about. And today I think I'm going to talk to you about a few of the lessons I've learned.

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