Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies such as AirBnB, Airtable, Coinbase, Deel, Figma, Gusto, Instacart, Navan, Notion, Pinterest, Retool, Rippling, Square, Stripe and others. Elad has invested in 40+ companies worth $1B or more, 30+ of them at the seed or series A. Elad was early to the AI wave, running AI-centric product orgs at Twitter (search), Google (ads targeting) and has invested in generative AI companies like Character, Perplexity, Harvey.AI. He is author of the bestselling book “High Growth Handbook”, a guide to scaling startups from 10 to 10,000 people. Elad is Chairman of Electric Capital, a crypto fund, and has invested in crypto companies (Coinbase, Anchorage, Bitwise, Opensea). Elad is Co-Founder of Color Health, a digital population healthcare delivery company. He is also involved with longevity biotech including BioAge and Spring Discovery. Previously, Elad was VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter, as well as ran various product teams (Geo, Search). Elad joined Twitter via acquisition of MixerLabs, where he was co-founder and CEO. Elad spent many years at Google, where he started the mobile team. He was the original product manager for Google Mobile Maps and Mobile Gmail, which are used by hundreds of millions of people a month. Elad also worked on ads targeting and other ML-related systems at Google. Elad worked at McKinsey & Co. and received a Ph.D. from MIT and BS and BA in Math from UCSD.
