Google Ventures' Twitter account is in the doldrums and Bill Maris isn't pleased. Maris, the intense managing partner of the search giant's venture-capital arm, is sitting in a huge window-paneled conference room with a few members of his marketing team. One of them tries to brighten the mood by noting @googleventures has about 34,000 followers. That's far more than arguably the hottest venture firm in Silicon Valley right now, Andreessen Horowitz (which has about 7,000 followers), though not as many as the A-list Sequoia Capital (around 43,000 followers). Maris isn't satisfied. When he gets excited, as he does now, his voice has a tendency to break into a higher register. "I want us to get not just up to the curve but ahead of the curve."
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