How Silicon Valley’s Most Prolific Investor Picks Unicorns | Elad Gil Interview

All right, today we were sitting down with one of the smartest people that's ever been on this podcast. His name is Ilad Gill and he is a prolific angel investor. He's a guy who has invested in something like forty plus billion dollar companies all at very early stages, like Airbnb, Airtable, Andrew. Retool, Rip Link. companies that we've all heard of down the tech space. He was a entrepreneur. He got acquired by Twitter. He was one of the first hundred employees at Twitter. He was early at Google, and he's been very early to Waves. He's w he was

doing longevity before longevity was cool. He was doing AI investing before Chat P GPT came out. So we love talking to people who are like this that are both very brilliant, very accomplished, and seem to be skating where the puck is going. They sort of know what's coming around the corner and they've proven that. in their career. So we talked to him about how he's been such a good investor, what he's looked for and his approach and how it's pretty different than most investors.

We talked about his ideas, so things he wants to see built and projects he's working on right now. And then a little bit of life advice at the end where he left us with kind of an amazing tidbit or a nugget about what's made him such an interesting person. So enjoy this episode with a lot of skill. I feel like I can rule the world I know why be what I want to

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