Secrets of Silicon Valley from Solo Capitalist and the Worst Advice That Founders Get

In the 49th episode of the Logan Bartlett Show, Solo Capitalist and angel investor Elad Gil joins to discuss working at Twitter vs Google, the myths of Silicon Valley, the best cities for start-ups in 2023, and the worst advice given to founders.
(00:00) Intro
(01:59) Welcome Elad Gil
(11:24) Working at Twitter vs Google
(12:48) Find your network
(14:55) Why do certain people have so much longevity?
(16:36) Angel Investing areas
(21:34) Finding Stripe in the early days
(25:19) What makes a good product market?
(30:10) Myths of Silicon Valley
(32:42) Decision-making process today vs back then
(35:22) Defining post-market fit
(40:05) Silicon valley lore of grinding is wrong
(46:19) Moving the needle
(49:01) Other silicon valley myths that aren't true
(56:06) Best cities to create a start-up in 2023
(1:02:02) Excitement for AI and other interesting new tech
(1:13:10) What's going on with Twitter?
(1:18:25) Two Modalities for long term success
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky
Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir
Executive Producer: Josh Machiz
Music: Griff Lawson
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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

[@seedpass]

Thank god you rebranded this is so much better, I was literally going to email you about this 😂

[@roblake602]

Thank you, Logan. Elad has some great advice My start-up needed that!

[@oiuhwoechwe]

no-priors is a great podcast with Elad