Elad Gil
Founder of Color
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