Elad Gil — One Of Tech’s Sharpest Minds — On Early Bets, Breakout Growth, And What’s Coming Next At Techcrunch Disrupt 2025

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7:00 AM PDT · August 7, 2025

Elad Gil isn’t conscionable up of nan curve — he practically lives there. Before astir of nan world had moreover asked ChatGPT its first question, Gil was penning early checks into companies for illustration Perplexity, Character.AI, and Harvey. And that’s conscionable a portion of nan story. His way grounds includes seed aliases Series A investments successful much than 30 unicorns and engagement pinch immoderate of nan astir iconic names successful tech — Stripe, Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Notion, Figma, Flexport, Gitlab, and galore more.

This October, Gil takes nan Disrupt Stage astatine TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 successful San Francisco for a fireside chat that promises to screen a batch of ground. From his attack to spotting breakout imaginable early to really he’s reasoning astir nan adjacent large activity of innovation. Whether you’re building successful AI, crypto, wellness tech, aliases endeavor SaaS, this speech is simply a uncommon opportunity to perceive really 1 of Silicon Valley’s astir prolific investors sees nan roadworthy ahead.

Register early to pouch existent summons savings and subordinate valuable conversations pinch startup heavyweights for illustration Gil.

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Why this 1 matters

There are VCs, and past there’s Elad Gil. With operating acquisition astatine Google and Twitter, aggregate laminitis wins, and a portfolio that sounds for illustration a who’s who of tech occurrence stories, he brings a uncommon operation of usability empathy and investor clarity. His bestselling book High Growth Handbook is required reference for startup leaders scaling fast, and his expertise to decode markets earlier they displacement is 2nd to none.

In this one-on-one, we’ll spell heavy connected early-stage investing, caller frontier technologies, and what it really takes to build a category-defining company. From nan wrong out.

Don’t miss nan valuable takeaways — only astatine Disrupt 2025

Join 10,000+ startup and VC leaders October 27–29 astatine Moscone West successful San Francisco. From headline-making sessions to hands-on networking, Disrupt is wherever nan early of tech gets built — and this fireside pinch Elad Gil is conscionable 1 of galore reasons to beryllium successful nan room. Register here to snag your spot for this exclusive discussion.

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