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Elad Gil

Founder of Color

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Elad Gil is an accomplished entrepreneur and startup advisor based in San Francisco, California. With a background that includes serving as a Vice President at Twitter and founding companies like Color and Mixer Labs, Elad has made significant contributions to the tech industry through his strategic partnerships, product development expertise, and successful investments in companies like Scale AI and Applied Intuition.

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.

Color is a healthcare delivery platform that offers cancer prevention, screening programs, and healthcare services for people.

Raised $482,000,000.00 from T. Rowe Price, General Catalyst, Kindred Ventures, WR Hambrecht, Viking Global Investors and Emerson Collective.

  • 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.

X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.

Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.

  • CEO and Co-Founder

    2007 - 2009

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

Mixer Labs is the creator of GeoAPI.com, a location engine for developers, and TownMe, a local information site.

  • 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. 
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 PM on Google's AdSense products (Front End, Machine Learning/Ads Targeting, Ads Infrastructure and Analytics/Reports).

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Consultant

    2003 - 2004

McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity

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