#863: Elad Gil, Consigliere to Empire Builders — How to Spot Billion-Dollar Companies Before Everyone Else, The Misty AI Frontier, How Coke Beat Pepsi, When Consensus Pays, and Much More

Apr 30, 2026 · 1h 52m

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0:00Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs.

0:02This is Tim Ferriss.

0:03Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it's my job to deconstruct world-class performers to try to tease out how they do what they do.

0:10And my guest today is Elad Gill.

0:13And I have his official bio in front of me, but let me just say that he is one of the most impressive investors and thinkers I have ever met.

0:22He repeatedly identifies the right founders in the right markets before anyone else and then materially helps them to win.

0:32And there are many different examples of this, but before the AI rush, he wrote checks into Perplexity, Harvey, Abridge, OpenAI.

0:40This was before the broader market really reoriented around LLMs.

0:45And that's just the most recent wave.

0:47He's done this over and over again.

0:4940 plus unicorns, which is just insane when you think about it.

0:56And once you're lucky, twice you're good, 40 plus times.

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