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 100 years and what's about to happen

in the next 100 years with the advent of AI.

The world is going to change by orders of magnitude. Thank you very much for that 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.

Before that, I found that 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 on these interesting experiences I've had in life.

So we'll start with one of four lessons I'm going to talk about.

And we're going to go back to 1997 to start when I was a fresh college graduate.

I had a degree in neuroscience.

And I found myself on Wall Street somehow, managed to

land a job there, but I was miserable having to wear a suit and trudge to work in the heat.

But one good thing came of that, which was I looked in the closet of the office one day, and I

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