When you build relationships with entrepreneurs, they’re not trying to optimize on price. Bill Maris Read Quote
I would draw a really big distinction between competition, or potential competition, and a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest implies wrongdoing, whereas competition is really healthy. Bill Maris Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The reality is if you were going to die tomorrow, and someone offered you another 10 years, most people would take those 10 years. Bill Maris Read Quote
I’m not bothered when other VCs start hiring great designers or start recruiting. That’s the direction I’d like it to go. Bill Maris Read Quote
