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Elad Gil

Founder of Color

San Francisco, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Startup Helper

    2008 - Current

    Investor or advisor to AirBnB, Airtable, Coinbase, Deel, Figma, Flexport, Gusto, Instacart, Navan, Notion, Opendoor, PagerDuty, Pinterest, Rippling, Samsara, Square, Stripe. Was an Adviser to Twitter's executive team on key strategic areas for a year ending May 2013. Also an investor in cryptocurrency companies and protocols like Coinbase, Anchor, dYdX, Bitwise.

  • Co-founder

    2013

    Was CEO of company for first ~3 years. Transitioned to board member in Fall 2016.

  • Vice President

    2009 - 2012

    Vice President, Corporate Strategy Member of Twitter's executive Operating Committee. Projects included aspects of user growth, international, API, organizational scaling, M&A, and recruiting processes. Director, Geo Product Co-ran the Geo Team as a cross functional team, with product, engineering (infrastructure, front end) business development, and user experience responsibility. Director, Search Product Twitter Search is one of the largest search engines on the planet with >1 billion queries served a day. Search infrastructure, search quality, and search user interfaces.

  • CEO and Co-Founder

    2007 - 2009

    Co-founded Mixer Labs / GeoAPI, an early developer-centric infrastructure platform. Acquired by Twitter.

  • Product Management

    2004 - 2007

    MOBILE Started Google's mobile team. Early PM on Mobile Maps, Mobile Gmail, etc. Involved with the diligence and/or integration of 3 acquisitions. 
 MONETIZATION
 PM on Google's AdSense products (Front End, Machine Learning/Ads Targeting, Ads Infrastructure and Analytics/Reports).

  • Consultant

    2003 - 2004

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