{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Elad Gil: \u201cA Startup is An Act of Desperation\u201d and Other Wisdom from one of Silicon Valley's Best Investors","description":"It is not a stretch to call Elad Gil one of Silicon Valley\u2019s best investors.  In a world where one big hit can make a venture capitalists\u2019 career, Elad has invested in\u2026Well, here\u2019s a partial list Airbnb, Airtable, Anduril, Brex, Checkr, Coinbase, Deel, Figma, Flexport, Gitlab, Gusto, Instacart, Notion, Opendoor, PagerDuty, Pinterest, Retool, Rippling, Samsara, Square, Stripe, TripActions, Wish. It seems almost impossible.  But there it is.  Elad\u2019s career includes working at Google, founding a company acquired by Twitter, and founding Color Genomics (you probably heard about them during the COVID response). He is also author of the book High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People. In this wide-ranging discussion, Elad shares his thoughts on everything from building companies to crypto, AI, and more.   Elad\u2019s home page:      https:\/\/eladgil.com\/ Elad on Twitter:          https:\/\/twitter.com\/eladgil Something Ventured: https:\/\/somethingventured.us\/    ","author_name":"Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/somethingventured.us","html":"