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Elad Gil

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Serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies including AirBnB, Pinterest, Square, Stripe. Currently working on a new company.

Previously, was the VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter, as well as ran various product teams (Geo, Search).

Joined Twitter via the acquisition of MixerLabs, a company was co-founder and CEO of. MixerLabs ran GeoAPI, one of the early developer-centric platform infrastructure products.

Spent many years at Google, where he started the mobile team and was involved in all aspects of getting the team up and running. Involved with 3 acquisitions (including the Android team) and was the original product manager for Google Mobile Maps and other key mobile products.

Prior to Google, had product management and market seeding roles at a number of Silicon Valley companies. Also worked at McKinsey & Co. Received his Ph.D. from MIT and has degrees in Mathematics and Biology from UCSD.

Recent Milestones

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  Elad Gil invested in Euclid. (2/21/13)
  Posted 2/21/13 at 7:13pm via techcrunch.com
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  Elad Gil invested in ZenPayroll. (12/12/12)
  Posted 12/12/12 at 3:47am via techcrunch.com
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  Elad Gil invested in Twice. (8/21/12)
  Posted 8/21/12 at 8:44am via techcrunch.com
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  Elad Gil invested in Stripe. (7/9/12)
  Posted 7/9/12 at 4:32pm via techcrunch.com
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  Elad Gil invested in Diffbot. (5/31/12)
  Posted 5/31/12 at 6:16pm via techcrunch.com
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  Elad Gil invested in Crowdtilt. (5/17/12)
  Posted 5/17/12 at 7:13pm via dowjones.com
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  Elad Gil invested in Grubwithus. (5/1/11)
  Posted 5/6/11 at 11:35am via techcrunch.com
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  Elad Gil invested in Airbnb. (11/10/10)
  Posted 11/10/10 at 6:20pm via marketwire.com
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  Elad Gil invested in Qwiki. (7/10/10)
  Posted 9/22/10 at 10:18am via partnerconnectevents.com
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  Elad Gil invested in Optimizely. (3/17/10)
  Posted 7/15/10 at 6:12pm via techcrunch.com
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  Elad Gil — Investor in AirBnB (1/1/10)
  Posted 3/23/11 at 8:34pm via quora.com
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  Elad Gil invested in Foodzie. (12/16/08)
  Posted 12/16/08 at 2:23pm via techcrunch.com
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  Elad Gil added a position as Advisor at Schematic Labs.
  Posted 4/26/11 at 7:16pm
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  Elad Gil added a position as Product Manager at Google.
  Posted 1/4/10 at 4:47pm
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  Elad Gil added a position as Advisor at Adku.
  Posted 12/9/11 at 3:44pm
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  Elad Gil added a position as Founder at Mixer Labs.
  Posted 7/13/09 at 5:38pm

Investments

Videos

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How much money did Airbnb raise? What is the company's financing history? (quora.com) [edit]
1. Euclid, The Google Analytics-Like Tracking Solution For Brick-And-Mortars, Raises $17.3 Million Series B (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs At Yammer, Box, Yelp And Dropbox (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Disrupt San Francisco Early Bird Special news Comment 0 inShare14 Twice Raises $4M From IA, SV Angel And CrunchFund For Its Concierge-Style Secondhand Clothing Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Sexy Payments Startup Stripe Swipes $20M From General Catalyst, Sequoia, Thiel And More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Diffbot Raises $2 Million Angel Round For Web Content Extraction Technology (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Group-Funding Service Crowdtilt Collects $2.1M In New Financing (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
7. Investors Cough Up $1.6 Million To Dine With Grubwithus, The Brilliant Social Dining Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Airbnb Press Release, Nov. 11, 2010 (marketwire.com) [edit]
9. partnerconnectevents.com [edit]
10. Optimizely A/B Tests Its Way To $1.2 Million In Funding From A Roster Of Top Angels (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Foodzie Raises $1 Million For Its Specialty Food Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]