#863: Elad Gil, Consigliere to Empire Builders — How to Spot Billion-Dollar Companies Before Everyone Else, The Misty AI Frontier, How Coke Beat Pepsi, When Consensus Pays, and Much More

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show, where it's my job to deconstruct world class performers to try to tease out how they do what they do. And my guest today is a lad. Gill. And I have his official bio in front of me, but let me just say that he is one of the most Impressive investors and thinkers. I have ever met. He repeatedly identifies the right founders

In the right markets before anyone else And then materially helps them to win. And there are many different examples of this, but before the AI rush. He wrote checks into perplexity, Harby, Abridge, Open AI. This was before The broader market really reoriented around LLMs. And that's just the most recent wave. He's done this over and over again. 40 plus. Unicorns.

Which is just insane when you think about it. And Once you're lucky, twice you're good, 40 plus times. I don't even know where that places you, but it's certainly a lead. So Alad Gill, you can find him on X and all social at Elad Gill, spelled E-L-A-D G I L website, Elad Gill. Is CEO of Gillin Co, a multi-stage investment firm, holding company, and operating company working on the world's most advanced technologies. Alad is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies, including Airbnb, Anderil, 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 Mixer Labs and Color. Aladd is the author of the bestseller High Growth Handbook Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People. I'll leave it at that.

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