How Silicon Valley’s Most Prolific Investor Picks Unicorns | Elad Gil Interview

My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

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🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Episode 635: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Elad Gil ( https://x.com/eladgil ) about the three things he looks for when betting on startups, how he became an early investor in Anduril, plus 3 business ideas he thinks someone should go after. — Show Notes: (0:00) How to be successful in angel investing (3:00) How to create a bankroll (5:00) Making the great works of history available to anyone anywhere (7:21) The 1 thing that matters in a business (10:21) How to master a new topic like defense tech (12:15) Investing in Anduril in the first round (15:47) $1b dollar 1 person companies (18:51) Missionary vs mercenary (22:12) Idea: new schools inspired by Ancient Greece (25:49) Idea: A drug that makes you live longer (34:56) Idea: Large scale monuments to flex (44:25) Gil's Guide to Intensive Travel — Links: • Elad’s blog - https://eladgil.com/ • Proof School - https://www.proofschool.org/ • BioAge Labs - https://bioagelabs.com/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0	Today we were sitting down with one of the smartest people that's ever been on this
0:03.4	podcast his name is a lot Gill and he is a prolific angel investor he's a guy who is
0:08.4	invested in something like 40-plus billion dollar companies all at very early stages like Airbnb
0:15.0	Airbnb air table and real retool rippling companies that we've all heard of down the
0:19.7	tech space he was a entrepreneur he got acquired Twitter. He was on the first hundred employees at Twitter. He was early at Google. And he's been very early to waves. He was doing longevity before longevity was cool. He was doing AI investing before chappee gee pd came out so we love talking to people who are like this that are both very brilliant very accomplished and seem to be
0:39.6	skating where the puck is going they sort of know what's coming around the corner and they've
0:43.0	proven that in their career. So we talked to him about how he's been such a good investor,
0:47.6	what he's looked for and his approach and how it's pretty different than most investors.
0:51.2	We talked about his ideas, so things he wants to see built and
0:54.2	projects he's working on right now, and then a little bit of life advice at the end
0:57.7	where he left us with kind of an amazing tidbit or a nugget about what's made
1:01.4	him such an interesting person. So enjoy this episode,
1:04.0	if you get allowed to kill.
1:07.0	I feel like I can rude the world. I know I could be what I want to.
1:09.0	I put my all in it like plus unicorns of the portfolio. invest in a bunch of companies. I think you have something like 40 plus
1:23.1	unicorns of the portfolio and impressively at least 20 or 30 of them were
1:28.5	very early states. So Seed State, Series A, Precede, some somewhere there.
1:32.0	That's wild. As somebody who's invested in, I don't know, 100 companies myself, I look at what you've done there and that is prolific. And so first question, it's like, you know, there's a block of wood and I don't really know how to
1:44.2	hack, how to chop into this.
1:46.0	I'm just gonna swing one blunt swing here.
1:48.8	How the heck are you doing this?
1:49.9	Why, how have you had this success in Angel Investing?
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