Gil Elbaz's guest appearances

Gil Elbaz

The Puck: Venture Capital and Beyond

DealMakers: Entrepreneur | Startups | Venture Capital

LA Venture

Orchestrate all the Things podcast: Connecting the Dots with George Anadiotis

Sean Harper

Minnie Ingersoll

Eva Ho

David Waxman

Will Schmitt

Mark Mullen

Anna Barber

Rick Smith

Brian Garrett

Matt Kozlov

David Klein

Guy Kawasaki

Andrew Smith

John Kim

Jason Gardner

OwlTail

My partner Gil Elbaz joins to talk about his passion for data, building AdSense, selling to Google and then building Factual.  He also explains why founders should mentally commit 10 years to their startup before beginning.

Gil Elbaz -- TenOneTen

Gil Elbaz cofounded Applied Semantics which he sold to Google for over $100 Million. Applied Semantics was the creator of Adsense which Google turned into a $15 billion business representing 23% of its total revenue. Elbaz most recently founded Factual which provides accurate and comprehensive data on places and people worldwide. The company has raised over $100 million from investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Felicis, Founder Collective, or Data Collective.

Gil Elbaz On Google Acquiring His Company And Turning It Into A $15 Billion Business

Gil Elbaz is an investor and entrepreneur best known for co-founding Applied Semantics (acquired by Google in 2003) and founding Factual. A pioneer of natural language technology and vocal believer in the vast potential of data accessibility, Gil starts at the beginning describing his early fascination with data. He takes us through his different entrepreneurial pursuits and then gives us some practical applications of how information-sharing technologies are changing the world.

Episode 11: Gil Elbaz of  Factual