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The Knowledge Project #228 · May 27, 2025 · 1h 30m

Elad Gil: The Guy Behind Silicon Valley's Greatest Unicorns

Elad Gil
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Elad Gil — serial entrepreneur, investor, author of High Growth Handbook. How he advises companies scaling from Series A to IPO. Market timing, fundraising, and the patterns that separate companies that scale from those that stall.

Highlights

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Scaling requires different skills at each stage
What works at 10 people breaks at 100. What works at 100 breaks at 1000. The founder must either evolve or hire people who can.
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Market timing matters more than execution
The best execution in a bad market loses. Mediocre execution in a great market often wins.
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References

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High Growth Handbook — Elad Gil (2018) — Gil's playbook for scaling startups

Misc

✧Invested in or advised Airbnb, Coinbase, Figma, Instacart, Notion, Stripe, and others