Elad Gil
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD, -
UC San Diego
BA, BS, Mathematics, Molecular Biology -Work Experience
Gil Capital
Current
Gil Capital
Color
Current
Color
2009-12-01 - 2012-05-01
Mixer Labs
2007-11-01 - 2009-12-01
Mixer Labs
2004-06-01 - 2007-09-01
McKinsey & Company
2003-01-01 - 2004-01-01
McKinsey & Company
Skills
Summary
Entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies such as AirBnB, Airtable, Anduril, Anchorage, Coinbase, dbt Labs, Deel, Figma, Flexport, Gitlab, Gusto, Instacart, Notion, Opendoor, PagerDuty, Pinterest, Retool, Rippling, Samsara, Square, Stripe, TripActions. Co-Founder and Chairman at Color Genomics. Was CEO of Color from 2013 to fall 2016. 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 I 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 Ph.D. from MIT and have degrees in Mathematics and Biology from UCSD.
