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Comment author: advancedatheist 09 March 2015 11:54:48PM 9 points [-]

Google Ventures and the Search for Immortality Bill Maris has $425 million to invest this year, and the freedom to invest it however he wants. He's looking for companies that will slow aging, reverse disease, and extend life.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-09/google-ventures-bill-maris-investing-in-idea-of-living-to-500

Comment author: CellBioGuy 11 March 2015 07:13:49AM *  1 point [-]

You'd think that having worked in a biomedical lab at duke he'd know better than to say things like: “We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision”

Comment author: JoshuaZ 11 March 2015 02:55:04PM 2 points [-]

Yes, but he presumably also knows what sort of things one might say if one wants other investors to join in on a goal.