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15 Facts About Bill Maris

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Bill Maris's investments have to date resulted in over 150 exits and more than 50 companies that have grown to over $1B in value, including: Nest, Uber, Crowdstrike, Coinbase, 23andMe, Flatiron Health, Foundation Medicine, The Climate Corporation, Vir, and Auris.

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Bill Maris is the creator of Google's Calico project, a company created to treat aging as a disease, and cure it.

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Bill Maris is the founder of early web hosting pioneer Burlee.

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Bill Maris's background includes research at the Duke University Medical Center Department of Neurobiology.

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Bill Maris began his career as a biotechnology and healthcare portfolio manager for Swedish investment firm Investor AB.

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In 1997, Bill Maris founded one of the first Web hosting companies, Burlee.

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Bill Maris founded GV, formerly Google Ventures, in 2008 as the venture capital investment arm of Google.

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Bill Maris was responsible for the fund's strategy and management, and oversaw $3.0 billion in investments in technology and the life sciences.

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Bill Maris was Google's Vice President of Special Projects and head of Google for Startups and led Google's global startup and private company investment activities, including building a team of 70+ across 13 global offices, eight countries and nine different venture funds.

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Bill Maris's investments resulted in more than 20 IPO's, 100+ mergers and acquisitions, and includes more than 40 companies whose valuations have exceeded $1B.

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Bill Maris founded Calico, a company whose mission is to understand and influence the genetic basis of aging.

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Google funded the company after Bill Maris pitched the board of directors.

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Bill Maris was Google's Vice President of Special Projects, which included extensive work with at the earliest stages of Google X, Verily, Waymo and other projects.

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In 2017, Maris founded S32, a California-based venture fund with approximately $2 billion under management.

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Bill Maris filed for divorce from Prettyman on April 20,2018.