#12 Elad Gil

Elad Gil #12 Cofounder, Color Genomics and Mixer Labs Elad Gil, a founder and angel investor, has a checklist of qualities that he looks for in founders when he considers investing in a seed startup: “Clarity of thought, clarity of communication, and seeing and acting on reality via a pragmatic lens.” Outside of his investment career, Gil has played crucial roles at Big Tech companies: first as a product manager at Google, and then as the vice president of corporate strategy at Twitter. He’s invested in several unicorns, too, including Rippling and Brex, the latter of which announced in January that it hit a $12.3 billion valuation. Source: businessInsider