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Investor / Author
Elad Gil
Serial entrepreneur and investor. Author of High Growth Handbook. Advised or invested in Airbnb, Coinbase, Figma, Stripe, and dozens of other unicorns.
Known For
High Growth HandbookMarket timingScaling companies
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Biographies as Substitute Mentors
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Constraints Enable Scaling — Simplicity Over Optionality
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Environment Shapes Behavior More Than Willpower
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The Hedonic Treadmill — Happiness Returns to Baseline
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Jevons Paradox: Efficiency Increases Total Consumption
Curious
Meaning Comes from Responsibility, Not Happiness
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Predictive Processing: The Brain Creates Pain to Signal Perceived Threat
Novel
Return on Luck
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Focus Only on What You Can Control
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The True Self vs. False Self — Childhood Adaptations That Persist Into Adulthood
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Books
■High Growth Handbook(2018)
Episodes
#Coinbase’s Everything Exchange: Agentic Finance, Stablecoins, and Tokenization with CEO Brian ArmstrongSep 10, 2026#Travel Through the Lens of AI with Booking.com CEO Glenn FogelJul 9, 2026#Re-engineering the Semiconductor Supply Chain with Intel CEO Lip Bu TanJun 18, 2026#Biohub: The Future of Biology is Open-Source with Co-Founders Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, and Head of Science Alex RivesJun 10, 2026#Amex Global Business Travel: The World's First AI Take Private with Long Lake CEO Alexander TaubmanMay 11, 2026#Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava on the AI Inference Crunch, Custom Models, and Building the Inference CloudMay 1, 2026##863: Elad Gil, Consigliere to Empire Builders — How to Spot Billion-Dollar Companies Before Everyone Else, The Misty AI Frontier, How Coke Beat Pepsi, When Consensus Pays, and Much MoreApr 29, 2026#The 2026 AI Forecast: Foundation Models, IPOs, and RoboticsJan 2, 2026#The Best of 2025 (So Far)Dec 20, 2025#The Future of Robotics: From Demos to DeploymentNov 1, 2025#Inside OpenAI o3: The Reasoning RevolutionAug 15, 2025#Mercor: AI-Powered Talent Matching at ScaleJul 20, 2025#Abridge: AI for Medical DocumentationJun 15, 2025#228Elad Gil: The Guy Behind Silicon Valley's Greatest UnicornsMay 28, 2025#Palo Alto Networks CEO on AI SecurityMay 10, 2025#AI Enterprise Software: What Is Actually WorkingApr 15, 2025#Noubar Afeyan: AI in Biotech and Drug DiscoveryMar 20, 2025#OpenAI Developer Experience with Isa FulfordFeb 20, 2025#The Best of 2024Dec 30, 2024