Elad Gil combines rare hands-on experience as both a startup founder who sold to Twitter and a former Twitter VP who ran product teams and M&A, giving him deep operating knowledge that most investors lack. He has consistently invested early in future category leaders like Airbnb, Stripe, Figma, and Notion across multiple technology waves, and recently moved beyond just investing to actually incubating new AI companies like Braintrust. Elad Gil combines rare hands-on experience as both a startup founder who sold to Twitter and a former Twitter VP who ran product teams and M&A, giving him deep operating knowledge that most investors lack. He has consistently invested early in future category leaders like Airbnb, Stripe, Figma, and Notion across multiple technology waves, and recently moved beyond just investing to actually incubating new AI companies like Braintrust.