Early AI investor Elad Gil finds his next big bet: AI-powered rollups

YC partners say AI founders are closing huge deals fast by taking a page out of Palantir's early playbook

Garry Tan, an early Palantir employee, said AI founders should embed with customers.Harry Murphy/Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty ImagesAI founders should see themselves as "forward-deployed engineers," said Y Combinator partners.The term, popularized by Palantir, refers to engineers who embed themselves with clients.Founders have closed "six, seven seven-figure deals" by being forward-deployed engineers, said a YC partner.Some AI founders ar…

Early AI investor Elad Gil finds his next big bet: AI-powered rollups

Elad Gil started betting on AI before most of the world took notice. By the time investors began grasping the implications of ChatGPT, Gil had already

Elad Gil, backer of Perplexity, Character.AI, Airbnb, Coinbase, and Stripe, invested in Enam Co., which aims to use AI to reinvent businesses via PE roll-ups

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