Elad Gil
13 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 8, 2024 by Elad Gil · said 6 times in 2 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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Oct 8, 2024 bullish
Elad Gil: Invested in AI Startups Like Perplexity Pre-ChatGPT
“I got involved with a lot of generative AI companies quite early, you know, Perplexity and Harvey and things like that, simply because I was really keen on generative AI and sort of ML related stuff. As I started investing in all those things three years ago b…”
Oct 8, 2024
Gil: Invested in Notion, Airtable, and Retool without a thesis
“I invested in Notion, Airtable, and Retool within, I don't know, two years of each other, whatever the time frame was. But at the time, there was no low code, no code. Kind of thesis. It was just, these are really interesting founders working in interesting ar…”
Oct 8, 2024 bullish
Gil: Anduril Expands Defense Market Cap Through 50% Margins
“The traditional defense tech companies are what are known as cost plus, which means if you have a million dollar drone, they charge five percent. So they can't make more than five percent margins. They make 50 can a drone. You're Anduril. You can sell 10 bette…”
Oct 8, 2024 bullish
Gil: Seeking an entrepreneur to fund for a K-12 classical school chain
“Yeah, I need somebody to spearhead it. I think you know, traditionally there's this directly responsible individual or DRI problem, right? It's really easy to come up with ideas. And then usually you need help executing them. And so, you know, it's something t…”
Oct 8, 2024 bearish
Oct 8, 2024 bearish
Oct 8, 2024
Elad Gil: Market Selection Matters More Than Founder Quality in Startups
“I tend to take more of a market first approach than most early stage people. I focus on the market and product market more than the founders. And obviously founders are incredibly important. I started two companies myself, so I hope that founders are incredibl…”
Oct 8, 2024 positive
Gil: Passed on SpaceX at a $500M valuation due to check size minimums
“One of my big regrets is somebody pinged me on the SpaceX round when it was like a five hundred million dollar company, and I really was excited about it. I thought it was such a interesting game. And I just, I didn't have enough money for the minimum that the…”
Oct 8, 2024 bearish
Oct 8, 2024 neutral
Gil: Gene therapy is bottlenecked by delivery, not CRISPR editing
“When people talk about gene delivery, there's like three or four aspects of it that matter, and everybody focuses now on sort of the CRISPR side of it, which is, can you modify a gene? In a cell versus can you target it to the right cells? Will your immune sys…”
Oct 8, 2024 positive
Gil Is Using AI to Translate 1,000 Public Domain Classics Into Audiobooks
“We're trying to take the thousand most important books that are off of copyright and translate them into dozens of languages using AI and then create audio books off of any, off of all of them so people can download the great works. Of history from anywhere in…”
Oct 8, 2024 negative
Oct 8, 2024 positive
Gil: Transformative Travel Requires Spending a Month Learning a Skill Locally
“Spend at least a month in one city and adopt, decide to learn something there. And so, you know, maybe you want to go learn how to draw, or maybe you want to go to France and learn to make pastries, or maybe you want to, you know, in my case, it was go to Indi…”