Elad Gil

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1Jan 8, '25Massive fires in highly populated areas are preventable It is policy decisions that allow them to happen California continues to put citizens lives & property at risk for no good r103×2.5M4.1k478389
2Feb 9, '25I love how hard tech companies always have giant American flags in their facilities55.4×1.4M29k6371.2k
3Feb 8, '25Overheard “I have made more money being brave than being brilliant”21.3×530k16k1.9k3.2k
4May 11, '24🔥High Growth Handbook🔥 Scaling Companies From 10 to 10,000 Topics -Role of CEO -Hiring Execs -M&A -Product -Other company scaling Amazon: Audible: Full book online:19.1×475k1k101885
5Mar 19, '25What is Harvard's 3% admissions rate selecting for 🤔18.8×467k2.8k149269
6Aug 17, '23When I started my first company, I was paranoid about sharing information or telling people what I was doing outside of the company When I started my second company, I was much mor18.8×466k75077242
7Mar 17, '25Why AI based tutors are going to be such a big deal 1:1 tutoring = 2 sigma improvement in learning achievement Image from "The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Inst17.1×425k1.6k1751.1k
8Oct 17, '25Must be tough being a Kushner kid @JoshuaKushner - "Just raised $25B and invested in OAI, Stripe, Databricks" @jaredkushner - "Hold my beer, am heading to the Middle East"16.6×413k2k48325
9Aug 25, '24From @davidtsong on my team Cost of 1M tokens has dropped from $180 to $0.75 in ~18 months (240X cheaper!)15×373k1.4k244554
10Nov 10, '23When I started my first company we were 5 people & 2 Google engineers offered to join "as a package" @ low price of just 10% each. Said their alternative was to start a company14.2×352k1.1k33105
11Sep 15, '24Seems like only 1 reasonable interpretation of this data?14×349k4965155
12Sep 18, '23The 1960s "overpopulation is going to kills humanity, cause mass famine, and should cause us to halt progress and not have kids* thing" didnt quite pan out *remind you of anything 13.4×333k5556589
13Jan 20, '24Who would be on a real 30 under 30 today? Interesting to wonder by sector - which sectors today have the most young people with lots of responsibility or impact? Who are they? Mayb13.2×327k44824237
14Feb 21, '24Things I don't know about AI markets - a list of questions about our ever changing world :)12.1×301k1k1111.4k
15Dec 4, '23Throughout history of tech some of biggest companies in world started off highly capital efficient 1970s: MSFT bootstrapped until pre-IPO 1980s: Dell bootstrapped until pre-IPO 19911×274k99179367
16Nov 5, '25Welcome 😀 Emmanuelle!10.1×251k457555
17Jul 25, '242010 was roughly $500M. 2023 was $90B AWS revenue by year9.9×247k69866116
19Aug 20, '24This should only accelerate8.7×215k77957182
20Apr 22, '23Anyone working on AI/co-pilot for next-gen data stack? E.g. co-pilot to help navigate dbt, Spark etc etc versus "better BI visualizations" or "text to SQL"?8.2×204k57844640
21Dec 18, '23A founder I know was going to meet with a big name and asked for advice for meeting. Tips 1. Start the meeting with agenda so person realize you will make good use of their time & 8.2×203k715651.3k
22Dec 2, '24Brutal. College educations aren't what they used to be, apparently7.8×193k66748171
23Jan 12, '24Things to do when asking for an intro: -Start a fresh clean email with a relevant subject line someone can forward easily. Dont reply with a bunch of crap inline alongside other mu7.6×190k865701.6k
24Aug 18, '23I used to think growing a small vegetable plot would be a way to commune w nature, be at peace w the world After slugs, aphids, mildew etc I realize I had it backwards Gardening is7.6×188k1.2k5958
25Jan 23, '24This year it looks like >4 companies will reach GPT-4 level models Given its lead, one could guess OpenAI should be at GPT-4.5 or 5 This should reshape some segments of both AI 7.6×188k3612055
26Jan 5, '24"Is the west talking itself into a decline?"7.4×184k4386796
27Mar 22, '24The ex-Palantir network has an impressive set of founders 💪🔥7.2×179k5132089
28Feb 24, '25Pivot points on your life School -Brand or not -What you study Spouse -Who you marry -Age when marry -Kids # & health Work -Platform or not -Scale or not -Founder or not Family & f7.0×174k1.7k1021.2k
29Feb 16, '25What are the best nice hotels in SF at which to stay? If you are optimizing for -Seeing the city (good food,... ) -Being safe (low crime, can actually walk out the door with minima6.7×168k3316498
30Sep 23, '25Interesting to see companies like @stripe undilute via purchase of their own shares 👀6.0×148k69123105
31Mar 24, '23OpenAI has hit the magic moment Google had 2003-2008 where -it was shipping interesting significant products on regular basis (Gmail, Chrome, Android, bought Youtube etc) -it sucke5.7×141k4473855
32Jan 30, '23Anecdotally seems like founder migration was: Early COVID -> leave cities and become nomads Mid COVID -> Miami & Austin Jan-Aug 2022 -> Move to NY Aug-Sep 2022 -> S5.5×138k3791730
33Jan 25, '23If it doesn’t ship, it doesn’t exist5.5×137k6278342
34Oct 13, '25Today @benthompson on rare earths "U.S.’s deficiency in rare earths isn’t a matter of needing to catch up to technological excellence; it’s needing to simply have the will, incenti5.4×135k92855170
35Feb 11, '25🔥Index companies are amazing🔥 Anduril - index defense Coinbase - index crypto NVIDIA - index AI Stripe - index ecommerce SpaceX - index space Wrote about this 5 years ago -5.4×134k1.3k74921
36Sep 15, '25Great conversation w @jaredkushner on @NoPriorsPod -Leaving the White House & starting Affinity -AI, government, big enterprise -Launching @BrainCo_AI -Middle East & the fu5.3×131k72171398
37Mar 17, '24Shots on goal often more important than perfect execution5.1×127k86780198
38Mar 19, '24We are living through the AI equivalent of ZIRP5.0×124k6995383
39Feb 5, '25What a wonderful word5.0×124k1k82248
40Apr 18, '24Need to bring back large scale inspiring monuments, statues, art, architecture to cities Am working on something here. More coming soon5.0×123k5041076
41Feb 16, '231/N "Defensibility & Competition" Is the "wrapper on GPT" co defensible? Is any early SaaS company? This posts argues most startups start without moats & build defensibilit4.9×123k40752270
42Nov 6, '24Amazing work by @garrytan to help bring SF back from the extreme left4.9×121k7642118
43Apr 15, '24We are right on the cusp of large changes. May take 10 years to fully show up, but the tech is all here to do it Simple example - Every book will be launched in 100 languages at on4.8×120k64868239
44May 23, '23More AI companies with sudden virality + paying customers should just bootstrap 0. Running co for cash may be best success 1. If it does scale, being profitable or near to it creat4.8×120k37029103
45Feb 11, '25Anduril is in a magic moment that only a handful of generational companies ever see Everything accelerates / you become the center of universe for a domain You get the best people 4.7×118k91729114
46Nov 28, '23Coinbase is worth $30B again4.7×116k3571818
47Aug 21, '25Any favorite spots (restaurants, coffee shops etc) to work out of in the evenings in SF?4.6×115k40517592
48Jul 22, '25AI Markets Crystalize For subset of AI markets, it is suddenly clear who the finalists or winners will be: * LLMs * Code * Legal * Medical Scribing * Customer Service * Search & IR4.4×108k60934477
49Jun 17, '24Reminder - if someone is making intros / doing work on your behalf, make it as easy as possible for them: 1. Fresh email w new subject & short intro blurb with a clear ask in it th4.3×106k62175477
50Jun 26, '25I invested in Stripe in 2010 under the premise that Stripe was an index on ecommerce and SaaS Now it looks to also be an index on AI 🤖4.2×104k76431325
51Apr 2, '24If you are in a market where PLG is possible and you refuse to do PLG, someone else will and may take your market4.1×102k42435126
52Sep 11, '23One of the biggest impacts of AI will be to global health and global health equity 💪4.1×101k4896672
53Aug 28, '24Best way to have a great career in tech 1. Join right place. Optimize for co over short term role/comp/etc "Get on the rocket ship" 2. Make boss'/group life better. Get things done3.8×94k90848401
54Sep 27, '24Clear @elonmusk is the best founder of the last few generations @PayPal @SpaceX @Tesla @OpenAI @xai takeover of X/Twitter etc etc3.7×92k6492065
55Apr 11, '25“You can tell the quality of a person by the quality of their friends”3.6×90k414941
56Jun 10, '25🤔3.4×84k54842285
57Mar 20, '24Increasingly wondering if this AI wave is what the 90s internet wave felt like- *Giant tech disruption *Who wins at ~everything up in the air *Incredibly fast changes every week in3.2×80k82968207
58May 20, '25In biotech, a small number of disease areas are focused on due to industry structure (many companies are incubated by VCs, who flip them pre-product into the pipelines of a handful3.2×80k39136246
59Mar 22, '24Conversation w/ @arthurmensch CEO of @MistralAI @figma *Mistral models *OS & opencore AI *Fine tuning, context windows,... *Vertical AI models *EU & French startup scene3.1×77k35740405
60Jul 30, '25I am continuously reminded of the power and value of raw competence Every time I think I understand how important it is, I realize I underestimate its importance3.0×75k1.1k57209
61Sep 20, '23View post on X3.0×75k4647935
62Apr 28, '24Bees are back2.9×72k3962524
63Feb 3, '25Time to bring back hyper intelligent youth to government 🔥2.9×71k2k114125
64Apr 11, '24When I led @perplexity_ai's first round of funding I was massively impressed with velocity to ship, and ability to hire amazing people Sill true today 🔥💪2.8×71k50126117
65Dec 3, '24New office art2.8×70k1.3k2871
66Feb 17, '25I got texts from people during ~2016 when I first backed Anduril. “How dare you, they are anti semetic” My response “Nope - we just talk about defense, tech, anime and crypto” Was 2.8×70k6751258
67Aug 19, '25View post on X2.8×70k32521156
68Oct 17, '24Seems like you can will a finance cluster into existence (Dubai, Singapore) but much harder to do a tech cluster (many have tried)...2.7×68k5212475
69Nov 4, '25Excited to host fireside w Henry Kravis, legendary founder of KKR who pioneered Private Equity We will cover -Starting PE industry -Starting KKR -AI rollups & buyouts -Philanthropy2.7×68k47710162
70Aug 22, '24Continue to be amazed no one is blinking at the fact institutional competency is so low, we have literal astronauts stuck in space (And also seems like admin really doesnt want to 2.6×66k5353823
71Feb 3, '25I would happily hire any of these people once they are done with public service Trained in the art of analytically driven GSD in the face of adversity, hatred, while having a huge 2.6×64k1.2k3981
72Mar 2, '24Urgency needs a source to power it Organizations default slow down Without a motive force (ie you) to move, things default wont2.6×64k39346152
73Sep 14, '25View post on X2.5×61k95938291
74Feb 16, '25Was thinking about the area around the (former) mall / Four Seasons Hotel in SF Sad to realize how bad governance destroyed that area, gutted a mall, and ruined what was once a nic2.4×59k5011226
75Jun 27, '25IBM Watson was just inches away from being the dominant AI platform If only they had 10X engineers, compute, data, AI, Demis, Ilya S, Noam S, Andrej K, Dario, Sam A, & $100B of2.4×59k4841662
76Dec 23, '24Congrats to some really amazing people going to work in government - @skupor Director of the Office of Personnel Management @sriramk for AI @emilmichael for Undersecretary of Defen2.2×56k5162052
77Oct 1, '25Airlines without Starlink WiFi are incredibly vulnerable to ones that will have it2.2×56k6441522
78Oct 2, '24"90% of success is showing up" Other 10% is follow up...2.2×55k71245144
79Mar 13, '24So good2.1×51k34523171
80Jul 31, '24This is one reason it is worth going to a company that is breaking out / scaling early in your career It sets the tempo for everything that comes after and creates brand, network, 2.0×51k35734101
82Oct 15, '24As an aside, Palantir alumni also 🔥 Perhaps working on (at the time) unpopular areas (defense etc) filtered for people who actually think for themselves1.9×48k3651443
83Sep 9, '25Israeli stock market1.9×48k6151867
84Mar 1, '24Two of the most motivating forces are the excitement of something new, and the excitement of winning1.9×47k50144117
85Oct 10, '25Exciting progress on Middle East. Go @jaredkushner1.9×47k71621117
86Nov 10, '24Kind of amazing not all the races called as of yet. Something seems fundamentally broken Irrespective of political orientation, should want voter ID + same day results (or very clo1.9×47k495720
87Mar 28, '24Huberman's podcast = him dating 6 women at once My podcast = me stopped in street by AI engineer who wanted to point out nuances of nearest neighbor search in various vector DBs1.8×45k359650
88Jan 10, '25Peter Thiel in @FT1.7×43k31732105
89Feb 18, '25Congrats to @Saronic! Time to bring ship building back to USA1.7×43k3531126
90Mar 12, '25View post on X1.6×40k4673318
91Oct 28, '24These media direct comparisons to Hitler and his rallys have got to stop It cheapens (perhaps quite purposefully) what happened in the 1930s & 40s, including bona fide attempts1.5×37k4381717
92Jun 6, '25Anduril should be a verb Def: "to kick ass since conception, into scale, and beyond" Congrats @SchimpfBrian, @PalmerLuckey @traestephens @mttgrmm Excited to be part of this round G1.5×37k4431934
93Oct 12, '24Meanwhile, in Atlas Shrugged....1.2×29k4912012
94Feb 10, '25Society has forgotten about the inspiring power of public art and monuments1.1×27k3832033
95Apr 4, '25Today1.0×25k367424
96Sep 23, '24Lucky to have @SpaceX & @elonmusk1.0×25k3711012
97Feb 7, '25Need more this1.0×24k489814
98Dec 23, '24Choice of @skupor is truly inspired. He is so good. ❤️1.0×24k3871311
99Jan 1, '25This increasingly feels like the year a lot of bad policy decisions of the past decade all coming home to roost (e.g. org competence & plane crashes, open borders & global 1.0×24k369828
100Nov 6, '24🇺🇸0.8×20k46466

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