Biography

Studied neuroscience at Middlebury College.

President and managing partner of Google Ventures since 2008, a venture capital fund with $2 billion in assets, that invests in "later-stage technology companies" such as biotechnology, oncology, reverse aging, big-data management, and home automation.

Twenty years ago, without genomics, you could only treat cancer with a poison. That's really different from, 'We can cure your cancer by reverse-engineering a stem cell.' You can now legitimately invest in a company that could cure cancer. In 20 years, chemo will seem so primitive it will be like using a telegraph.