Inside the mind of Elad Gil: Early-stage investing and next-gen innovation at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 (techcrunch.com)

Elad Gil, the prolific early-stage investor behind seed and Series A checks into Perplexity, Character.AI and Harvey (and a portfolio that helped spawn 30+ unicorns including Stripe, Airbnb and Notion), will appear in a one‑on‑one fireside at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco. The session promises a playbook on spotting breakout potential before markets mainstream, decoding nascent categories, and practical advice for building category‑defining companies across AI, crypto, health tech and enterprise SaaS—grounded in Gil’s operator experience at Google/Twitter and his scaling advice from High Growth Handbook. For the AI/ML community this is a rare chance to hear how an investor with proven foresight evaluates frontier tech: what signals matter early (team, distribution, product‑market fit), which technical moats and data/compute advantages are durable, and how new model families, agentic systems or verticalized AI products can find enterprise traction. The talk also serves as a networking hub—Disrupt runs Oct 27–29 at Moscone West with 10,000+ founders and VCs—making it a practical opportunity to test theses, meet collaborators, and surface early investment or partnership signals. Registration discounts expire Sept 26.