Elad Gil

Elad Gil General Information

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Dr. Elad Gil is a Co-Founder of Color. He served as an Advisor at Origami Logic. He is an Investor in Gitlab. He serves as an Advisor at Upside. He is an Investor & serves as an Advisor at Airbnb. He serves as an Advisor at PagerDuty, Coinbase, Rippling, and Deel. He serves as an Executive at Instacart. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Color Genomics. He serves as an Advisor at Dynaboard and Mino Games. He is an Investor in Pinterest. He serves as an Advisor at Airtable. He is an Investor and serves as an Advisor, Operating Executive, & Entrepreneur at Stripe. He served as Chief Executive Officer at Color Genomics. He served as the Vice President of Corporate Strategy for Twitter. He was also a Co-Founder and served as Chief Executive Officer at Mixer Labs / GeoAPI before GeoAPI.com. He has a long-standing interest in location-based services and mobile. He co-founded Google's Mobile Team, where he was the first PM on Google Mobile Maps and was involved with the Android acquisition. He served as an Advisor at Aclima. Before Google, he worked at 3 venture-backed startups and McKinsey. He is currently an investor and advisor to several mobile and social media startups. He is an Advisor of Upside and Origami Logic. He served as an Advisor at Anchorage. He also serves as the Chairman at Spring Discovery. He has a Ph.D. from MIT. He serves as an Advisor at Harbor Platform. He served as an Advisor at Brex. He also serves as an Advisor at Electric Capital. He served as an Advisor at Bitwise. He previously served as CEO of Color and VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter, where he ran various product teams, including Geo and Search. He joined Twitter with its acquisition of MixerLabs, an early developer-centric platform infrastructure provider, where he was co-founder and CEO. He spent many years at Google +1.5%, where he started the mobile team and was involved in all aspects of getting that team up and running. He was involved in three Google acquisitions (including that of the Android team) and was the original product manager for Google Mobile Maps and other key mobile products. He has also held product management and market seeding roles at several Silicon Valley companies and worked at McKinsey & Co. He received his PhD from MIT and has degrees in mathematics and biology from the University of California, San Diego. He serves as an Advisor at Ambient.ai. He served as an advisor at Flexport.