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▶ 14:30 · $GOOGL · Bill Maris: Google can weaponize its cash to crush OpenAI and Anthropic on token pricing
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Bill Maris: How Google Could Crush AI Competitors, Why Small Funds Win, and AI's Atari Stage

2026-06-09 · 4 company · 0 thematic
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bill maris

Founder and first CEO of Google Ventures (GV) and founder of the life-sciences fund Section 32.

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“if I'm Google and I don't speak for Google and I decide to arbitrarily cut the cost of tokens to 80%... if you're a company and you can go to Google and Gemini and you can pay 80% less for that basically identical product why wouldn't you…”
—bill maris
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