Bill Maris is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and technology executive. He is the founder of S32, a venture capital firm investing at the frontiers of innovation. His investment track record includes iconic, category-defining companies such as Uber, Nest, Slack, CrowdStrike, Coinbase, and Flatiron Health - that have collectively grown to hundreds of billions of dollars in market value, generating billions of dollars of returns.

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Bill is the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures (GV), the venture capital arm of Alphabet, Inc., and previously served as Alphabet’s Vice President of Special Projects. Working closely with Google’s founders, he helped incubate and launch major initiatives including Google X, Waymo, and Verily, while leading global investment activities for Alphabet. His leadership spanned a broad array of cutting-edge technologies—from cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure to aviation, artificial intelligence and robotics.

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During his tenure at Google, Bill founded Calico, a multi-billion-dollar company focused on understanding the biology of aging and lifespan. He served on the board of Nest and recruited the CEOs of Verily, Chronicle, and Calico. Earlier in his career, Bill founded one of the world’s first web-hosting companies and worked at Sweden-based Investor AB. He also assisted MacArthur Fellow David Green in transferring a hydrophobic acrylic lens technology to Aurolab, where it has since helped prevent or cure cataract blindness in millions of underserved people worldwide.