What Elad Gil thinks about startups

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Serial entrepreneur and investor; writes Elad Blog on startups, scaling and technology, and co-authored the book High Growth Handbook.

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2 dated positions, 2024 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Elad Gil has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 20 Apr 2026

   Our readingMost successful AI startups should seriously consider selling within the next 12-18 months rather than staying independent.

   Their wordsFounders running successful AI companies should all take a cold hard look at exiting in the next 12-18 months, which may be a value maximizing moment for outcomes.

   ↗Random thoughts while gazing at the misty AI Frontierblog.eladgil.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

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3. 21 Feb 2024

   Our readingAs frontier AI model training costs balloon, funding is increasingly concentrated among big tech companies and nation-states rather than venture capital.

   semiconductorsventure capital

   Their wordsAs frontier model training booms in cost, the emerging funders are largely concentrated amongst big tech companies (typically with strong incentives to fund the area for their own revenue - ie cloud providers or NVIDIA), or nation states wanting to back local champions (see eg UAE and Falcon).

   ↗Things I Don't Know About AIblog.eladgil.com 2nd of 3 in this piece