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Elad Gil is an American entrepreneur, investor, author, and advisor based in Silicon Valley, renowned for co-founding Mixer Labs (acquired by Twitter in 2009) and Color Genomics (now Color Health, founded in 2015), holding early executive roles at Google and Twitter, and making solo investments in companies such as Airbnb, Stripe, Figma, Anduril, Perplexity, and Deel.
He was born in Israel around 1977 and spent his early childhood there before immigrating to California with his family. He has publicly identified as an Ashkenazi Jew. In a 2017 TechCrunch interview about Color, he described asking his doctor about genetic carrier screening commonly recommended for Ashkenazi Jews.
He earned a BA in mathematics and a BS in molecular biology from the University of California, San Diego, then a PhD in biology from MIT.
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