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My First Million 6 
No Priors 6 
David Senra 5 
Capital Allocators 5 
American Optimist 2 
Invest Like the Best 2 
the MAD Podcast 2 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 1 
How I Built This 1 
the a16z Podcast 1 
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Elad Gil comes up on 20VC, In Depth, Founder's Journal, TBPN, Sourcery
Dino Mavrookas: America Needs to Build Ships Again
- ▶ 20:26 Dino Mavrookas And then you look at, you know, caffeinated capital and Andreessen Horowitz and a lot of Gil and then Lely Kleiner Perkins led our last round.
Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated
- ▶ 44:14 Jason Lemkin So just like Elad Gill said, sell if you have an AI asset right now, right?
The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
- ▶ 37:00 Harry Stebbings But the quantum of cash that you move matters, and Josh and Elad and the multi-stage funds moving hundreds of millions and billions, you, you make a larger quantum of cash, and so I get you with the, in terms of your, your multiple goes…
Dylan Field on the “Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 36:58 Molly O'Shea I know all of that is super fun, but we have this urgent question from Elad Gil. 3 times in the scene
DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:46 unnamed speaker I mean, Elad Gill had a nice piece in that six, 12 months ago.
What Agents That Actually Work Look Like Right Now with Replit's CEO and Founder
- ▶ 2:13 Amjad Masad And you know, there was a tweet by Elad recently, Elad Gil saying, oh,
Ivanka Trump on Building an Authentic Life
- ▶ 1:01:02 Ivanka Trump You know, on the other side, I'm working on incubating a bunch of non-for-profits, so something that I'm really excited about came from a conversation I had with a great friend, um, the technology investor who you know, Elad Gil. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:59 David Senra Like, when you're deciding, hey, I want to meet this founder, I may invest in with them, or I may want to partner with somebody on this project like Planet Harvest in the profit domain or non-profit domain like you did with Elad.
The Five Year Desert to Product Market Fit & a $5.3BN Valuation with Shiv Rao, Founder @ Abridge · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
300 Pages on Anduril: Inside Modern Warfare · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:22:48 Kyle Harrison Uh, I can't remember if it was the Series A or the Series B, but Elod Gill, um, led an early round, and I, I think there's a story of, I mean, he got, uh, I think like, maybe not death threats, but like, you know, very angry messages from…
AppLovin CEO: Why Founders Shouldn't Angel Invest & Why the Best Don't Need Mentorship · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:07 Harry Stebbings I was just, uh, Eli Gill just tweeted actually, uh, compute is the currency of the future, and that compute will be one of the defining factors that the best talent looks for when deciding which company to join.
Intel Rips, Thrive Launches Eternal, GPT 5.5 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:49 unnamed speaker Well, you might think it's over, but Elad Gil does not. 6 times in the scene
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:28:24 Harry Stebbings Um, and Eli Gil today tweeted a load of predictions. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:39:09 Jason Lemkin It's a derivative of Elad's Gil's point.
How Applied Intuition Reached $15B (Without Spending $1B) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:06 Qasar Younis Series C was Bilal at Lux, and D was Elad Gil.
- ▶ 4:24 Qasar Younis But he's been with us from the beginning, and, uh, you know, our Series B was led by Himanth at General Catalyst, and, uh, you know, it's like where Series C was Bilal at Lux, and, uh, you know, D was Elad Gil.
How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 28:55 Joe Lonsdale Jared Kushner, who's obviously, you know, been involved in these administrations, he worked with Qatar, with Elad, and they built something where the permits only take, ah, 120 minutes there.
Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- ▶ 1:00:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia For example, I believe Elad Gill is also a solo GP. 2 times in the scene
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:43 Harry Stebbings Elad sent me and he was like, dude, this is amazing. 2 times in the scene
"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:44 Harry Stebbings It can be Eli Gill.
Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg: How to Make Mega Deals | Lessons from Rabois, Halligan & Grady · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:28 Winston Weinberg and then our first two angel investors were Sarah Guo and Elad Gil.
“I deliberately understaff every project” | Leadership lessons from Rippling’s $16B journey
- ▶ 1:23:37 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, also Sarah and Elad have a podcast called No Priors that I'd also recommend.
Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:59 unnamed speaker Just to name someone we hadn't named, you gotta hand it to Alad Gil. 6 times in the scene
#2288 She had people do AI’s work
- ▶ 40:00 Andrew Warner I'm going to interview one of your investors, Elad Gill. 7 times in the scene
Inside General Catalyst’s $1.5B AI Roll-Up Machine · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 25:58 Mark Bhargava Some like Elad you've had on the podcast is a great collaborator of ours and others.
- ▶ 50:19 Mark Bhargava You know, ourselves and ELOD and Thrive and a few others, AVC have embraced it, but I think most of the market is still pretty skeptical, you know, similar to kind of the crypto evolution and where Bitcoin and stable coins are today.
How a16z Growth Invests · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 31:03 David George So, you know, Nat and Daniel would have been an example of the, you know, Elad, you know, is an example of that.
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 29:12 Max Altman Of the first 40 of them, only one person had two lead checks, and that was Andreessen, and no one else had two, and if you look through the smattering, there are, you know, Green Oaks is in there, a lot of Gill's in there, but there's a…
What 20 Years of Investing taught Somesh Dash of IVP after backing Perplexity, Figma, Dropbox
- ▶ 19:21 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And when, in your diligence, when you were talking to early investors, I think, believe LR Gill was one of the early investors. 4 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 139 | With Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy
- ▶ 16:02 Sridhar Ramaswamy Um, but we can now be like, okay, we know the kind of data we think Ilad and Sarah are going to have, um, as part of their podcast, let's create a demo with, you know, synthetic data sets just for that.
Inside Coatue: $70B Hedge Fund’s AI & Retail Strategy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 52:16 Molly O'Shea I also asked, um, I think I asked Alfred about this, and maybe Elad, Gil, who's also coming on, and they all have different explanations for this, um, where it sounds actually more justifiable for OpenAI versus these younger companies, and…
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings They've raised over seventy million dollars from the likes of Sequoia, GV, Dylan Field, Elad Gill, and even the legend that is Mark Benioff.
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:55 Rory O'Driscoll The Stripe Seed round that Elad and others did was dirt cheap.
Base Power Raises $1B led by Addition, with Trust Ventures, Lightspeed, a16z, Altimeter, Elad Gil · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 2:23 Zach Dell So Thrive, our earliest backer, Valor, who led our Series A, Altimeter, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, Allad Gill.
- ▶ 6:41 Molly O'Shea I reached out to some of your investors for some questions for you, and one of them is, of all the investors who backed you, one, one of their names starts with E and ends with LADD, 5 times in the scene
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody
- ▶ 8:21 Lenny Rachitsky I saw you talking about this on the No Priors podcast with Sarah and Elad, and I don't know if it was after this or before this, but Sarah tweeted evals equals your new marketing.
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:23:35 Rory O'Driscoll They have some junior people, they have some, you know, you have stuff, right?
Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:18:58 unnamed speaker I mean, you can, you can say, hey, I'm really glad, CRV, that you focused your message down, and the next day you can say to Founders Fund, you got the most amazing growth rate fund on the planet, let me give you another billion, and the…
Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn (Mercury)
- ▶ 46:35 Imad Akhund Or, um, Elad Gill was our investor and he, you know, he was, he was supportive on the launch.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 16:25 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, but there was, we had Ilan Borough on the show.
Inside the ex-YC partner’s $15B self driving car company | Qasar Younis
- ▶ 59:42 Qasar Younis The, I mean, Marc Andreessen, Paul Graham, I mean, Himal, you know, our Series B lead, Elad Gill, old friend, and Bilal, you know, maybe
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:25 Harry Stebbings He's in the Sarah Guo, Elad Gill, Pat Grady. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:33 Harry Stebbings I think ELAD is the best embodiment of the concentration of value. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:06 Harry Stebbings Well, the interesting thing is when you look at, Bundly, the best performing managers, or the breakout managers the last few years, I think you put probably Thrive, Green Oaks, Founders Fund, and Eli Gill definitely up there.
- ▶ 26:19 unnamed speaker And including jumping a lab in that having really great early stage deal flow and access, and then realizing that the best way to monetize that
a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:11 Harry Stebbings And then you have wonderfully smart people like Elad Gill wholeheartedly advocate for being market first. 13 times in the scene
What Braintrust got right about product-market fit | Ankur Goyal (Founder and CEO)
- ▶ 14:07 Ankur Goyal Actually, Elad gave me this great advice. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:15 Ankur Goyal I was talking to Elad who, you know, speaking of non-transactional recruiters and stuff is like the one person who would just ping me 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:31 Ankur Goyal You know, I was stressed and tired and, uh, not, I w I wouldn't say I was like, felt like I remember I was talking to a lot at one point, like, should we hire a CEO early on or find a co-founder to be a CEO? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:42 Ankur Goyal I think this is another elotism. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:47 Ankur Goyal And then I've mentioned him like 45 times probably, but the person I've learned the most from is definitely Elad. 10 times in the scene
How Jack Altman Hit 100x Growth | Uncapped, AI, VC, Founders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 3:34 Molly O'Shea Elad Gill.
Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
- ▶ 21:54 Spooks (Swyx) You mentioned on, I think, the Sarah and Elad podcast where you had this conversation with Ilya a few years ago about
Windsurf CEO & Co-Founder, Varun Mohan: AI's Biggest Acquisition to Date! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:09 Harry Stebbings This incredible person, Julian, he led a workplace in Europe for 10 years, and I always believed, dude, arrogantly as a young person, I could read Elad Gill's High Growth Handbook, and I know how to manage people, and it's bullshit.
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:24 Harry Stebbings Like, in SF, I'm competing against Peter Fenton, Marc Andreessen, Vinor Kostler, Eli Gill, the Collisons, Daniel and Nat Friedman.
What's Happening To VC In India w/ All In Capital, Peer Capital & Upekkha
- ▶ 46:50 unnamed speaker I'd actually pick between Elad Gil and Gokul Rajaram.
20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:22 Harry Stebbings So like for me, when, when Elad sends me a deal, I'm like, oh shit, I'm paying attention. 2 times in the scene
Logan Bartlett talks about the history of VC, current sentiment, and are we back to 2021?
- ▶ 20:24 unnamed speaker Cause like, that's something like, you know, sometimes you see these sort of obvious power law companies, like the andurals of the world with a lot 3 times in the scene
How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:43 Aravind Srinivas Yeah, so I was like, adoshes enough to go and pitch to the first seed investor of ours, Elad Gill, that like, hey, like, um, you know, I want to disrupt Google, um, but I kind of want to do it from pixels from a glass, and I think that's… 2 times in the scene
Taking on an $80 Billion Dollar Market with Gen Z | Dylan Diamond · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:54 Molly O'Shea We have General Catalyst, KOTU, Insight, O-One Advisors, Jeff Bezos, Mark Benioff, Dara, Neo, Elad Gill, Dylan Field, and Inspired Capital, and I'm sure there's more.
No Priors Ep. 101 | With Harvey CEO and Co-Founder Winston Weinberg
The US GOVERNMENT Files (Time for the Truth)
- ▶ 44:44 Jordi Hays That could be, uh, Elad Gill,
How the LA Fires Started (8 Top Theories)
- ▶ 18:52 John Coogan And so a lot Gil broke down the, uh, the, uh, the situation in a great thread. 3 times in the scene
Jared Kushner - The Mechanic · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 2:29:57 Jared Kushner So we started a company recently with Elad Gill, who's one of the top investors in Silicon Valley in the AI space.
Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, Apple's Flop, TikTok, State of VC
- ▶ 1:07:09 Keith Rabois I wrote a whole chapter in Elag Gill's, you know, high growth handbook on why coming should go public as early as possible.
Torsten Reil, Helsing Founder: Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | E1237 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:50 Harry Stebbings You obviously took money from GC, from Eli Gill, from some big U.S. players.
Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- ▶ 3:07:20 John Coogan He writes, uh, a lot Gil. 3 times in the scene
Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- ▶ 2:43:55 Jordi Hays And this is, this is Elad Gill and his new monument company.
The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- ▶ 1:54:52 Jordi Hays Yeah, I think what's cool is like the new tech elite, like Matt Friedman, Elad Gill, they're all starting to like, do things with their money, and Elad Gill was on, um, a podcast recently, and they were like, the hosts were pressing him on… 2 times in the scene
You Have 70 Days to Win the Year
Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
- ▶ 21:46 Ankur Goyal Elad was insanely helpful. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:51 Ankur Goyal Luckily, you know, Elad, Alana, Sam, and now Martine were just like, that's stupid.
- ▶ 1:53:05 Ankur Goyal Like, the only people that really talked to me during that period were Elad and Alana. 2 times in the scene
Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua
- ▶ 1:08:32 Tamar Yehoshua I, I need to up my game there, uh, but I definitely have a, a list of, like, Ben's Bites and the Neuron, and I love, I like, those are good summaries, and like, I like Gil and Sarah Goh's podcast I listen to, Cognitive Revolution. 2 times in the scene
Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:15 Saam Motamedi I love Pat, uh, and there are many amazing people that you and I both know who I learned from, so it's hard to pick one name, but I'll go with Elad. 9 times in the scene
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:25 Dan Siroker One was an early investor in optimizing and actually a co-worker of mine back at Google, Elad Gil, who's now 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:25 Dan Siroker You know, Elad Gil is a good example. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:22 Dan Siroker Probably Sam Altman or Elad Gill, um, two folks who have been very helpful to me, who, you know, don't, who aren't on our board and probably don't need to or want to be, uh, but they're two fantastic people who have always had prescient… 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 60 | With Playground AI Founder Suhail Doshi
- ▶ 19:41 Suhail Doshi and then I described it, we would both come up with like completely different descriptions if Elad had to go and like draw it.
How to Spend a Startup’s $ Wisely
- ▶ 0:28 Alex Lieberman The first essay is by Elad Gill, who is a successful entrepreneur and arguably the greatest angel investor in the world. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17 Alex Lieberman And we're going to start with Elad's. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:23 Alex Lieberman And so the struggle here for a bootstrap founder, which I'll read a section from Eli Gill's essay in a minute, which alludes to this is once you have a business that's working, once you have product market fit, once you have a foundation 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:59 Alex Lieberman Then, then I'm going to fill, uh, finish up with what Eli Gill is saying, and then we're going to close out. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:06 Alex Lieberman And then the final thing I just want to read is basically how Eli Gil defines a capital efficient business. 3 times in the scene
Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:08 Keith Rabois I'm going to get, I, I believe that most companies, you know, and I have a chapter in Eli Gill's high growth handbook on the topic in a, in a fairly lengthy core answer as well on, I believe most companies are better
Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Zero)
- ▶ 1:30:17 Tom Conrad I really love Elad Gill's High Growth Handbook. 2 times in the scene
Competing in a Crowd of Incumbents with Mercury's Immad Akhund
- ▶ 15:47 Immad Akhund Along with Andreessen Horowitz, we had about 60 initial angel investors, uh, and some funds, uh, like, uh, Elad Gill, uh, Justin Khan, the original founder of SVB was an investor.
Perplexity AI CEO on Dethroning Google & Redefining Search
- ▶ 5:07 Aravind Srinivas So I really wanted to be part of that too, and reached out to two prominent investors in Silicon Valley, uh, Elad Gill and Nat Friedman.
Moonhub’s Nancy Xu Unveils the AI Recruiter That’s Beating LinkedIn
Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:06 Harry Stebbings That's really interesting, because that's not what people, that's often the opposite, like your, like an Eli Gill, will be like market first, and then I think people and then traction.
No Priors Ep. 28 | With Khan Academy’s Creator Sal Khan (Japanese Version)
Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:21 Sarah Guo So, I would say, uh, Gnome is, I just had Gnome Shazir on, like, my podcast with Alad, um, and it's called Gnome Priors, and, um, Gnome is brilliant, and the engagement data on character is, like,
- ▶ 17:25 Harry Stebbings In terms of opportunities, I, I love to show you did with a lad, um, on no prize, and you said the, kind of, one of the most exciting opportunities is in, kind of, tooling where the error rate doesn't lead to catastrophic effects, um, in,…
- ▶ 39:26 Harry Stebbings What have you learned from doing the podcast with a lad?
- ▶ 51:52 Sarah Guo Um, um, you know, I've been doing a bunch of work with a lot. 4 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 7 | With Stanford Professor Dr. Percy Liang
- ▶ 37:43 unnamed speaker Vlad's gonna try this tonight.
Lessons from scaling Stripe | Claire Hughes Johnson (ex-COO of Stripe)
- ▶ 9:27 Claire Hughes Johnson And when I contributed a chapter to Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook, even though if you look at High Growth Handbook, which I also, I really do recommend, not just because I'm in it, I'm probably the least, I don't know, celebrity… 4 times in the scene
Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb)
- ▶ 10:53 Lenny Rachitsky The first is, I think about this quote that Elad Gill tweeted once, and he wrote, I think a post about it. 2 times in the scene
The Genius of Spotify Wrapped and How to Copy It, and How to Sell Your Business for 9 Figures
- ▶ 29:19 Alex Lieberman So, Elad Gill, who's, you know, a, um, a really successful angel investor, he has basically said there's five reasons to sell your startup. 3 times in the scene
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