Elad Gil
Venture investor and tech operator, co-host of No Priors podcast.
- Chasing Trillion-Dollar Companies, Founder Ambition, Token Budgets, and Regulatory Capture with Sarah & Elad
- Building an Autonomous Enterprise for Real-World Services with Netic Founder Melisa Tokmak
- The Story Behind Cerebras’ $63 Billion IPO with Founder and CEO Andrew Feldman
- Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava on the AI Inference Crunch, Custom Models, and Building the Inference Cloud
“Applied Compute...is in talks to raise a new round led by Elad Gil at a $3 billion valuation.”
“I love for founders is just the High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil. I just think it's such a great reference guide on different problems. And the core principles, even when that came out several years ago, I still think hold true.”
Source→“Our first handful of cohorts have included companies like Cognition, Chai Discovery, Listen Labs, Physical Intelligence, and Flappy Airplanes.”
Source→“If you think about our friends at Cursor, is the way you want to compete capital compute access? And is it perhaps a maximally valuable point in time?”
Source→“There are a lot of investors who have intellectually recognized this idea of AI companies delivering services value. They don't act like they believe it. They look at everything a little bit more linearly, right? So think of if you're looking at Harvey or Abridge or something, then they think about a per seat or per lawyer or per doctor TAM.”
Source→“I've also invested in AI roll-ups where people will, you know, a company like Long Lake will go and buy a bunch of businesses and then optimize them with AI.”
Source→“Aditya Agarwal and Elad Gil, both of whom have built and backed software at scale, recently argued that incumbent reaction times have gone from five years to five months.”
“Secured a $25 million seed round led by Elad Gil.”
“NavigateAI, a developer of AI copilots for construction workers, raised $25m. Elad Gil led, joined by Khosla Ventures, Lennar, Fifth Wall, Tishman Speyer, and Helix Electric.”
“Shiv names him as the one investor he'd take with him if starting a new company.”
Source→“Long Lake Capital agreed to acquire the parent of American Express Global Business Travel for around $6.3b in cash.”
“Cursor cited as an example of a scaled AI-native application company. 'The fastest-growing AI companies in the world... like the Abridge, Cursor, Open Evidence of the world.'”
Source→“Podcast episode from No Priors featuring Elad Gil and Sarah Guo, interviewing Tuhin Srivastava on AI inference.”
Source→“'You've brought in a lot of really amazing talent, like Danny and Samir and Stephen Day, folks on both the technical and the go-to-market side.'”
Source→“Elad Gil on Chinese AI models subsidizing U.S. enterprises: 'It looks like effectively the Chinese government is subsidizing at least a large subset of these models, and that subsidy or surplus is effectively just being passed on to U.S. enterprises...'”
Source→“Harvey reached "$11 billion last month when Sequoia tripled down." Claims "100,000 lawyers across 1,300 organizations as customers" including Latham & Watkins, T-Mobile, and Bridgewater.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.