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The Tim Ferriss Show

2026-04-30

1 小时 51 分钟
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Elad Gil (@eladgil) is CEO of Gil & Co, a multi-stage investment firm, holding company, and operating company working on the world’s most advanced technologies. Elad is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies, including AirBnB, Anduril, Coinbase, Figma, Instacart, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Stripe. He was previously VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter and started mobile at Google. He was the founder and CEO of Mixerlabs and Color. Elad is the author of the bestseller High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People. This episode is brought to you by: Matic advanced robot floor cleaner that vacuums, mops, and docks itself: MaticRobots.com/TimAG1 all-in-one nutritional supplement: DrinkAG1.com/TimEight Sleep Pod Cover 5 sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating: EightSleep.com/Tim Helix Sleep premium mattresses: HelixSleep.com/Tim* For show notes and past guests on The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast. For deals from sponsors of The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast-sponsors Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (5-Bullet Friday) at tim.blog/friday. For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts. Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books. Follow Tim: Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss  Instagram: instagram.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferriss Facebook: facebook.com/timferriss  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/timferriss See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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  • Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs.

  • This is Tim Ferriss.

  • Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show,

  • where it 's my job to deconstruct world-class performers to try to tease out how they do what they do.

  • And my guest today is Elad Gil.

  • And I have his official bio in front of me,

  • but let me just say that he is one of the most impressive investors and thinkers I have ever met.

  • He repeatedly identifies the right founders in the right markets before anyone else.

  • And then materially helps them to win.

  • And there are many different examples of this,

  • but before the AI rush, he wrote checks into perplexity, Harvey, Abridge, OpenAI.

  • This was before the broader market really reoriented around LLMs.

  • And that's just the most recent wave.

  • He's done this over and over again, 40 plus unicorns, which is just insane when you think about it.

  • Once you're lucky, twice you're good. 40 plus times, I don't even know where that places you, but it's certainly a lead.

  • So Alad Gil, you can find him on X and all social at Alad Gil, spelled E-L-A-D-G-I-L, website aladgil.

  • A multi-stage investment firm, holding company and operating company, working on the world's most advanced technologies.

  • com, is CEO of Gil & Co.

  • Without further ado, please enjoy a very wide-ranging and I think very timely,

  • Alad is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive,