Elad Gil
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Elad Gil

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Elad Gil
Karan Singh for BI; Courtesy of Elad Gil
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The serial entrepreneur and prolific startup investor Gil, who is part of Business Insider's 2024 AI Power List, has raised $1 billion, reportedly bringing his personal war chest to more than $2 billion, to deploy into AI startups. Gil, who invested early in Airbnb, Stripe, and Square, has backed some of the most notable AI startups, such as Harvey, Mistral, Pika, Magic, and Perplexity. Gil, a former operator at Twitter and Google, recently told Business Insider that he believed the "AI app layer" would start to crystalize this year, bringing the power of rapidly advancing foundation models to the masses.

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Leena Rao
Leena Rao
Leena Rao is the executive editor for US Tech at Business Insider. Formerly a technology and venture capital reporter for Fortune Magazine and TechCrunch, she wrote investigative and feature articles about companies including Apple, Uber, Google, Stripe, Amazon and Alibaba. She has also written in-depth profiles on female leaders from Alphabet and Google CFO Ruth Porat to Kim Kardashian to Jessica Alba. Her work has also been featured in Marie Claire and ELLE Magazine. A mom to two little girls and a Goldendoodle, Leena is married to entrepreneur and author Suneel Gupta.