Startup Helper / Gil Capital / Gil & Co
Elad Gil is a highly successful serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and prolific investor based in Silicon Valley. He co-founded two companies, MixerLabs (acquired by Twitter) and Color Health, and previously served as VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter and started the mobile team at Google. As a solo venture investor, he has backed over 40 companies now valued at $1 billion or more, including AirBnB, Figma, Stripe, and Coinbase, and is the author of the "High Growth Handbook."
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Startup Helper
Investor or advisor to AirBnB, Airtable, Anduril, Coinbase, Deel, Figma, Flexport, Gusto, Instacart, Navan, Notion, Opendoor, PagerDuty, Pinterest, Rippling, Samsara, Square, Stripe. Investor at AI companies like Abridge, Braintrust, Character.AI, Decagon, Harvey, Perplexity, Mistral, and others. Was an Adviser to Twitter's executive team on key strategic areas for a year ending May 2013.
Also an investor in cryptocurrency companies and protocols like Coinbase, Anchor, dYdX, Bitwise.
Co-founder
Was CEO of company for first ~3 years. Transitioned to board member in Fall 2016.
Vice President
Vice President, Corporate Strategy
Member of Twitter's executive Operating Committee. Projects included aspects of user growth, international, API, organizational scaling, M&A, and recruiting processes.
Director, Geo Product
Co-ran the Geo Team as a cross functional team, with product, engineering (infrastructure, front end) business development, and user experience responsibility.
Director, Search Product
Twitter Search is one of the largest search engines on the planet with >1 billion queries served a day. Search infrastructure, search quality, and search user interfaces.
CEO and Co-Founder
Co-founded Mixer Labs / GeoAPI, an early developer-centric infrastructure platform. Acquired by Twitter.
Product Management
MOBILE
Started Google's mobile team. Early PM on Mobile Maps, Mobile Gmail, etc. Involved with the diligence and/or integration of 3 acquisitions.
MONETIZATION
PM on Google's AdSense products (Front End, Machine Learning/Ads Targeting, Ads Infrastructure and Analytics/Reports).
Consultant
Consultant
PhD
PhD
BA, BS
BA, BS - Mathematics, Molecular Biology
Core technical and professional competencies derived from his experience as a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and prolific solo investor.
Venture Capital
Angel Investing
Due Diligence
Business Strategy
Mergers & Acquisitions
Strategic Partnerships
Product Management
Start-ups
Entrepreneurship
Monetization
Business Development
Product Development
Mobile Devices
Mobile Applications
Distributed Systems
Scalability
Big Data
Cloud Computing
SaaS
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Organizational Scaling
Executive Management
Recruiting Processes
Venture Capital, High-Growth Startups, Enterprise SaaS, AI/ML, Biotechnology (Color Health)
Mobile Technology, Internet Infrastructure, Fintech, Cryptocurrency, E-commerce
Visionary, Prolific, Strategic, Results-Oriented, Data-Driven, Influential
Technology, Future of AI, High-Growth, Entrepreneurship, Systemic Change
Male 65.7%, Female 34.3%
25-34 (64.5%), 35-54 (17.8%), 18-24 (12.4%)
US (13.1%), BR (11.7%), IR (8.6%), IN (7.0%)
Tehran (2.7%), Baghdad (2.2%), New York (1.5%)
54.6K subscribers
232.2K followers
A summary of Elad Gil's career, focusing on his entrepreneurial exits, investment scale, and executive roles at major technology companies.
As a solo venture investor, he has backed over 40 companies that are now valued at $1 billion or more, including Airbnb, Figma, and Stripe.
Yes, he served as the Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Twitter from December 2009 to May 2012, following the acquisition of MixerLabs.
He is a Startup Helper and operates Gil Capital / Gil & Co, a solo venture firm he started in 2008.
He is the author of the "High Growth Handbook," a widely recognized guide for scaling startups and technology companies.
