How Did You Become a Venture Capitalist?

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Rich and i, our first goall was, will let's find things that that we feel will have a very high chance of returning capital. We were gush, let 50 some people, 55 something. I that 50, 60 somethingye. And built the team the same way we built the portfolio: thinking about people that we either knew or trusted and that we wanted to work with. It was a, it was, like, i set a lot of luck and good fortune involved.

Bill is the founder and first CEO of Google Ventures (GV). With $3.0 billion under management and investments in Uber and Nest, GV was described as one of the hottest venture funds in Silicon Valley under his leadership. Maris oversaw the growth of the team from 1 to 70+, across 7 offices, 2 continents, and 400 investments.

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