Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, executive, and one of the greatest tech investors of all time, with early stakes in something like 40 billion-plus dollar companies: AirBnB, Anduril, Coinbase, Figma, Flexport, Instacart, Notion, OpenDoor, Pinterest, Square, Stripe… I could really go on. He’s now managing a new billion dollar venture fund, for which he’s the sole investor.
Elad is also the co-founder of 2 companies: Color Genomics, a company providing genetic testing, software and clinical services for large-scale health programs – and before that, Mixer Labs, a company building location infrastructure for mobile devices that was acquired by Twitter. He worked as a VP at Twitter and also started the mobile team at Google.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=0s" rel="nofollow">0:00</a> - Intro 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=371s" rel="nofollow">6:11</a> - Blank Slates and Decaying Institutions 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=496s" rel="nofollow">8:16</a> - Western Pessimism and Agendas of Abundance vs Scarcity 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=750s" rel="nofollow">12:30</a> - The Long Boom: Is Innovation Speeding Up? 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=986s" rel="nofollow">16:26</a> - Are Startups Founder Limited or Market Limited? 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=1166s" rel="nofollow">19:26</a> - EIR Syndrome and Choosing the Right Market 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=1301s" rel="nofollow">21:41</a> - What Makes for a Good Investor, Operator and Entrepreneur? 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=1445s" rel="nofollow">24:05</a> - Positives and Negatives of Investing and Operating 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=1577s" rel="nofollow">26:17</a> - The Brand Value of Individuals vs Institutions 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=1685s" rel="nofollow">28:05</a> - Competing with Massive Firms 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=1833s" rel="nofollow">30:33</a> - Market-Driven Investing 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=2003s" rel="nofollow">33:23</a> - Starting Companies as Surfing Waves 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=2169s" rel="nofollow">36:09</a> - Age of Accomplishment and The Deferral of Adulthood 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=2535s" rel="nofollow">42:15</a> - What to Say Yes To 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=2661s" rel="nofollow">44:21</a> - Defense Tech and Complacency 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=2965s" rel="nofollow">49:25</a> - Private Markets and The Future of Venture 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=3131s" rel="nofollow">52:11</a> - Discontinuities in AI 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=3229s" rel="nofollow">53:49</a> - On Google 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=3316s" rel="nofollow">55:16</a> - LLM Oligopoly and Long-Term Scenarios for AI 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=3641s" rel="nofollow">1:00:41</a> - AGI and Sleeping 3 Hours a Night 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=3799s" rel="nofollow">1:03:19</a> - AI Doomerism 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=3965s" rel="nofollow">1:06:05</a> - The Deterioration of Speed 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=4167s" rel="nofollow">1:09:27</a> - Bureaucracy and the State of Nuclear 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=4372s" rel="nofollow">1:12:52</a> - Generosity and the Culture of Silicon Valley 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb6fyR7uZI&t=4519s" rel="nofollow">1:15:19</a> - What Should More People Be Thinking About?
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Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, executive, and one of the greatest tech investors of all time, with early stakes in something like 40 billion-plus dollar companies: AirBnB, Anduril, Coinbase, Figma, Flexport, Instacart, Notion, OpenDoor, Pinterest, Square, Stripe… I could really go on. He’s now managing a new billion dollar venture fund, for which he’s [&hellip;]