Elad Gil: Key Skill CEOs Need

Key skills CEOs need to be successful change with the scale of the company. CEOs need to make sure that:
1. The company is well capitalized
2. It's heading in the right direction
3. The company can attract, train, and retain great talent

Elad Gil chats with early crypto and blockchain founders at Electric Conversations. This conversation is moderated by Avichal Garg, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Electric Capital, an early-stage crypto-focused venture investment firm.

Conversation Recorded on Thursday, April 18, 2019

ABOUT ELAD GIL

Elad Gil is the Founder of Color Genomics and one of the most prominent angel investors in Silicon Valley. He invested early in companies like Airbnb, Stripe, Square, Pinterest, Coinbase, Instacart, and others. Prior to founding Color Genomics, Elad was VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter. Before that, Elad spent 3 years at Google where he started Google’s mobile team and was involved with 3 acquisitions including Android.

Elad is also the author of the High Growth Handbook, a guide to scaling startups. It contains tactical advice on key issues for post product-market fit companies such as the role of the CEO, hiring executives, late stage fundraising, M&A, and other topics.

You can find High Growth Handbook on Amazon

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ABOUT ELECTRIC CONVERSATIONS
Electric Conversations is a fireside chat series for crypto founders to meet with exceptional founders and CEOs. These guests have built and scaled companies and can share honest, tactical advice from their experience.

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