Tim Ferriss

NEW podcast episode is up! Elad Gil (@eladgil), 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 Elad Gil (@eladgil) is CEO of Gil & Co, a multi-stage investment firm, holding company, and operating company working on the world’s most advanced technologies. Elad is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies, including AirBnB, Anduril, Coinbase, Figma, Instacart, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Stripe. He was previously VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter and started mobile at Google. He was the founder and CEO of Mixerlabs and Color. Elad is the author of the bestseller High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People. Please enjoy!

"Often these things boil down to one single question: What is the one thing I need to believe about this company that makes me think it's going to continue to be really big? Usually, it's one thing. If it's three things, it's too complicated. It's probably not going to work. If it's no things, then it doesn't make much sense." — Elad Gil Listen to my interview with @eladgil: tim.blog/2026/04/29/ela…

tim.blog/2017/05/15/fea… Classic from @tferriss. One of the best OG Ted Talks.

Elad Gil on the tough questions AI founders need to ask themselves right now. @eladgil

We need to all work hard to live as long as possible, and in good health. I’ve met many companies trying to support this mission. One stands out, that those in the US haven’t experienced yet. I was blown away by the experience at @neko in London. Insanely well crafted patient experience, 30 min from start to finish, £300 (way cheaper than most), and immediate blood/skin/other results that a doctor walks you through live. They are focused on detecting and monitoring the things that most predict potential health problems at a very affordable annual cost. They’ve developed all their own technology, which feels like living in the future, now. They are opening in NYC soon. Go in London if you can. Future is bright in so many ways. Thanks to @shak and @HNilsonne for hosting us. Go try it!

Heading to the wild with @boydvarty and 4 of my close brothers for a week of lion tracking, silence, and deep reconnection 🌍🦁 3 years ago I was walking the streets of London, discovered a @tferriss podcast with Boyd, ordered *The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life* instantly and devoured it in 2 days 📖❤️ I started sending screenshots to a friend going through a difficult time. He read it, loved it, bought 10 copies and shared them across Abu Dhabi. The book then reached another close friend… who declared: “We’re all going on Boyd’s safari.” After months of calls and waiting lists (it was booked for years), we finally got our spot ✨ Now, 2 years later — we’re off. A week of nature, lion tracking, stillness, earth connection, and Boyd’s legendary wisdom. I’ll be open-sourcing everything I feel with the lions. Stay tuned 🔥

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT. The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time. A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B. Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself. GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won. Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective. It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect. Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance. 99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time. If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars. Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

Elad Gil on why top AI researchers just had a “personal IPO.” @eladgil

How @eladgil met @patrickc and ended up investing in @stripe

Here is a description of the incredible Alfred Lee Loomis, a generalist of the highest order who changed the course of World War II with his private science experiments: "Loomis did not conform to the conventional measure of a great scientist. He was too complex to categorize—financier, philanthropist, society figure, physicist, inventor, amateur, dilettante—a contradiction in terms." Be too complex to categorize. Look far and wide. There are worlds to conquer.

Her Mt. Pleasant experience as a rookie cop is incredible. Loving these interviews of amazing people I never heard of

Listen to my brand-new interview with Elad Gil: tim.blog/2026/04/29/ela…

Solid dissection into the brilliant mind of top tier investor and entrepreneur legend Elad Gil. This was awesome. youtube.com/watch?v=HutNi2…

NEW podcast episode is up! Elad Gil (@eladgil), 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 Elad Gil (@eladgil) is CEO of Gil & Co, a multi-stage investment firm, holding company, and operating company working on the world’s most advanced technologies. Elad is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies, including AirBnB, Anduril, Coinbase, Figma, Instacart, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Stripe. He was previously VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter and started mobile at Google. He was the founder and CEO of Mixerlabs and Color. Elad is the author of the bestseller High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People. Please enjoy!

Really enjoyed this conversation w @tferriss

@eladgil Links to everything discussed: tim.blog/2026/04/29/ela…