Elad Gil

13 statements across 2 episodes · 8 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 2, 2024 by Elad Gil · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Nov 2, 2024 positive
Opinion
Gil: Religious upbringing protects kids from adopting fake modern substitute religions
“Also I feel that some form of religious upbringing is useful if only to protect them from fake religions sort of coming in or modern religions.”
Elad Gil Nov 2, 2024 ▶ 44:38 Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 2, 2024 bullish
Disclosure
Gil: Backing AI-driven buyouts to reshape cost structures and roll up verticals
“The other thing I've been doing is actually been backing. I've now backed two AI driven buyouts where the idea is you buy the asset itself and you can radically change the cost structure or increase the leverage of our organization by putting in AI in a deep w…”
Elad Gil Nov 2, 2024 ▶ 40:55 Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 2, 2024
Disclosure
Gil: Recruited Google's early mobile team secretly without their managers knowing
“I recruited a lot of the early mobile team without their managers knowing because their managers didn't know what they were doing. So they'd just come and start working with me on mobile.”
Elad Gil Nov 2, 2024 ▶ 4:04 Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 2, 2024 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Gil: Twitter couldn't deploy code for weeks during MixerLabs acquisition
“At the same time when we were bought they couldn't what's known as deploy code, they couldn't update the website. And they hadn't been updating it for weeks. They just didn't know how to update the code.”
Elad Gil Nov 2, 2024 ▶ 9:04 Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 2, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gil: LLMs will eventually advance to perform all human services
“You have these steps, and so it's this ladder that you're climbing, and eventually you're going to hit a point where it can do all of human services, right? And I don't know if that's GPT seven equivalent or eight or six or 10 or whatever, but we're going to g…”
Elad Gil Nov 2, 2024 ▶ 37:26 Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 2, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gil: Machine intelligence will eventually dominate total brain equivalents
“There'd be like three eras of mankind in terms of, or three eras of intelligence, right? And the first era is basically people. And the second era is some hybrid era where it's a you know, if you look at the number of intelligence units or whatever you want to…”
Elad Gil Nov 2, 2024 ▶ 33:13 Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 2, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Gil: AI is dramatically underhyped despite current massive investment levels
“AI is in my opinion, dramatically under hyped right now. And I think part of that is number one, we're seeing massive actual revenue and impact without that much adoption, right?”
Elad Gil Nov 2, 2024 ▶ 30:28 Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 2, 2024 bullish
Insight
Gil: Owning vertical workflows insulates AI apps from model commoditization
“The things that I'm bullish on are where you own a workflow for a vertical. And so everybody in that vertical is using that workflow. And so if you upgrade the model, it just makes that workflow better. And so it doesn't matter what the model is.”
Elad Gil Nov 2, 2024 ▶ 39:35 Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 2, 2024 positive
Insight
Gil: Peak civilizations always build monuments to inspire future generations
“I think if you look at every society at its peak, or at least on its way up, you'd always have these large scale Inspiring monuments. You celebrate wins, but you also inspire the future. You inspire the next generation of people.”
Elad Gil Nov 2, 2024 ▶ 45:10 Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 2, 2024 negative
Opinion
Gil: Modern society has lost its aspiration to create beautiful artifacts
“I mean, we've kind of lost some form of beauty or sense of beauty in society, right? We don't aspire to make giant beautiful artifacts.”
Elad Gil Nov 2, 2024 ▶ 46:30 Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 2, 2024 bearish
Disclosure
Gil: Was totally wrong investing in two Nvidia competitors eight years ago
“The bottom side of it, the chip side actually invested in two companies seven, eight years ago thinking that there would be Nvidia competitors and I was totally wrong.”
Elad Gil Nov 2, 2024 ▶ 40:33 Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 2, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gil: Stanford, MIT, and Harvard founders created most recent startup value
“Somebody on my team actually went back and asked what are all, There are common schools that all the founders of the biggest companies went to, or the last decade, for example, right? And there's basically three schools that are like a huge chunk of the overal…”
Elad Gil Nov 2, 2024 ▶ 21:50 Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale
Mar 27, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Lonsdale: Kushner and Gil automated Qatar building permits to just two hours
“My friend, 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. So if you want a permit to build something, it'll get bac…”
Joe Lonsdale Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 28:54 How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains · Joe Lonsdale
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