Elad Gil (@eladgil) is the CEO of Gil & Co, a multi-segment investment firm, holding company, and the world’s leading technology operating company. Elad is an entrepreneur, CEO, 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 a best-selling author The High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People.
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