Here are three things a fundraising founder should know... about Disrupt 2026, with just a few days left on current pricing: 1. Our Founder Pass is built around structured investor access, not just a badge and a hallway conversation. 2. Startup Battlefield 200 puts you in front of the community members evaluating whether your company is built to last, not just built quickly. 3. Every stage this year, whether it’s the AI, Smart Money, Smart Systems, Builders, or Disrupt Stage, is organized around one question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? If you're deciding whether Disrupt 2026 is worth the trip, that's short case for it, but there’s a wealth of additional info right here: Current pricing ends Friday, August 21 at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, every pass tier inches higher.show more

Everyone’s now empowered to ship software swiftly. That's no... longer the hard part! The real difficulty comes with building something that still matters once the "I built this with AI" novelty is done. Replit CEO and Founder Amjad Masad has been living and breathing that problem, and he’s bringing that perspective to the Disrupt Stage at Disrupt 2026. It's one of more than 200 sessions this year built around a single pivotal question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era, not just a fast one? The current ticket pricing ends tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT. If Disrupt's been on your radar, now is the time to register before rates increase:show more

If you're fundraising this year, Disrupt 2026's Founder Pass... is built around giving you structured access to investors that are actually active in this market. You get to go beyond the Expo Hall, networking, and extensive sessions. And current pricing ends this Friday, August 21, so now’s the time to sign up:show more

We’ve added two new stages at Disrupt 2026 in... part because we’ve gotten feedback on two important tracks for the AI-driven landscape we’re in right now: There’s the Smart Money Stage, for the capital-allocation questions investors are actually wrestling with in this market. And there’s the Smart Systems Stage, which is all about the infrastructure and operational decisions that determine whether an AI product holds up at scale, long after a demo’s concluded. That’s on top of our traditional AI stage, the Builder’s Stage highlighting practical, tactical advice, and our flagship Disrupt stage. Current ticket pricing ends this Friday, August 21 at 11:59 p.m. PT. And if you want access to one, or all those stages, now’s the best time to register:show more

For investors, Disrupt 2026's Investor Pass is designed around... curated discovery. You get to explore more than 300 exhibiting startups and get structured meeting tools built to surface the companies worth your time. And to get the best ROI, register today before prices increase after this Friday, August 21:show more

Whatever you're building toward this year, Disrupt 2026's Attendee... Pass gets you into more than 200 sessions across six stages, countless networking opportunities, and a wealth of side events to help expand your network. And your chance to save $300 on a ticket ends this Friday, August 21:show more

Build something newsworthy that could change an entire industry?... You have a chance to show the world what you're capable of. This could be you taking a victory lap at Disrupt 2026, and that journey starts by applying to Startup Battlefield by June 8:show more

Jeff Bezos just told you exactly how to price... AI. Nobody listened. Bezos: “AI is real and it is going to change every industry. In fact it’s a very unusual technology in that regard in that it’s a horizontal enabling layer.” Horizontal enabling layer. Three words that reprice the entire technology sector. The iPhone was a vertical. One product. One new market. Electricity was a horizontal. One substrate that rewired every market on Earth. Wall Street is pricing AI like it is the next iPhone. Bezos is telling you it is the next electrical grid. Right now, thousands of companies are trying to sell AI as a product. A feature. A tool. A subscription tier. Every single one of them will be priced to zero. You do not sell a horizontal layer. You do not compete with it. You build on top of it or you disappear beneath it. For a century, entire industries survived on one thing. Complexity. The friction of navigating law, medicine, logistics, finance. That was the moat. If you could not memorize the maze, you could not compete. A horizontal layer does not navigate the maze. It dissolves the walls. Electricity did not compete with the candle industry. It erased the need for one. The most dangerous part of a horizontal shift is how quiet it is. It moves underneath the economy. The surface looks normal. Revenue still holds. Every day you operate on the old substrate, you accumulate a debt you cannot see and cannot repay. The internet repriced distribution. AI is repricing cognition itself. When intelligence becomes a utility that runs through the walls of every company on Earth, the premium on human expertise does not erode. It evaporates. This is not a disruption. Disruptions replace products. This replaces the ground you are standing on.show more

Elon Musk gave the entire entertainment industry its expiration... date, and he is the one building the thing that kills it. Musk: “My guess is that we see the first compelling half hour, pure AI show next year.” Next year. A complete show generated entirely by AI. No writers. No actors. No cameras. No sets. No crew. No studio. Just a prompt and enough compute to render a reality that never physically existed. And shows are the easy part. Musk: “I say probably we’re maybe three years away from AI does the whole video game.” A show plays the same way every time. A game has to generate a living world that reacts to every decision in real time across every single frame. That is a fundamentally harder class of problem. And Musk put three years on it. Right now a single AAA title takes seven years and half a billion dollars across thousands of engineers and artists just to ship it. Musk is describing a world where one person types a paragraph and gets something comparable. The entire value proposition of a multi-billion dollar industry lives inside that gap. And it closes in thirty-six months. But the prediction is not the story. The person making it is. This is not an analyst speculating from the sidelines. This is the man building the largest AI compute clusters on the planet. The man who built xAI from zero in under two years. The man stacking hundreds of thousands of GPUs into facilities designed to do exactly what he is describing. When Musk says three years, he is not guessing about what someone else might eventually ship. He is reading you a delivery date off his own roadmap. Every media company on Earth is valued on a single assumption. That quality content is expensive and difficult to produce at scale. That one assumption is the structural foundation underneath every studio, every network, and every publisher in existence. Musk is dismantling it with raw compute. The studios still parading thousand-person production teams are not demonstrating strength. They are advertising the exact cost structure that one person with a prompt and a GPU allocation is about to make irrelevant. And it does not stop at entertainment. If AI can generate an interactive world that responds to human input in real time, it can generate anything. Advertising. Architecture. Training simulations. Product design. Every industry built on humans manually constructing visual experiences frame by frame is sitting on the same countdown Musk just read out loud. Now zoom out. Because this is not just an industry story. For the entire history of human civilization, the distance between imagining a world and actually creating one required thousands of people, millions of hours, and billions of dollars. That distance built Hollywood. That distance built the gaming industry. That distance made content scarce and studios powerful. Musk is collapsing that distance to zero. When the gap between imagining something and it existing disappears, every business model built on the difficulty of creation disappears with it. That is not disruption. That is a full inversion of how human beings create. Musk did not make a casual prediction on that podcast. He told you what he is building. He told you the timeline. And he told you which industries do not survive it. The entertainment industry is still debating whether this future is real. Musk is not part of that debate. He is building. And he just told you the delivery date.show more

200 startups are selected. All 200 exhibit at Disrupt.... 20 pitch on the Main Stage. 5 make the final round. 1 wins $100K equity-free. It's time for you to join the field and enter Startup Battlefield:show more

More than 10,000 founders, investors, and operators. An agenda... packed with more than 200 sessions. One pass can get you access to it all at Disrupt 2026, before prices go up Friday:show more

AGI is here. But its arrival is not shared.... The future is being built in a small number of buildings, by a small number of people, and they are turning intelligence into a permissioned empire. What comes after touches your job, your money, your privacy, your political power. It is about whether the rest of us gets to maintain our agency at all. It doesn't have to be this way. I sat down with seven people who have been thinking about this hard: economists, political scientists, builders. PostAGI. First episode drops next week.show more

Jeff Bezos just described AI in three words that... make most of the economy temporary. Bezos: “AI is real and it is going to change every industry. In fact it’s a very unusual technology in that regard in that it’s a horizontal enabling layer.” Horizontal enabling layer. Not a product. Not a platform. Not a feature. A layer. Underneath everything. Everyone is asking which AI company wins. Bezos is telling you that is the wrong question entirely. A horizontal layer does not produce winners. It produces a new floor. Everything standing on the old one either gets rebuilt or gets erased. This has happened exactly twice in modern history. Electricity. The internet. Both times the same pattern. The new layer appeared. The old economy kept running above it. Revenue held. Careers continued. Everything looked normal. Then quietly and permanently the entire structure reorganized around the new substrate. The people who did not move were not outcompeted. They were made structurally irrelevant. Not because they were wrong. Because the ground they stood on stopped being ground. Bezos is telling you it is happening a third time. Not with a product. Not with a platform. With intelligence itself becoming infrastructure. A horizontal layer does not compete with the expert. It makes expertise free. It hands a 22 year old with zero credentials the same cognitive output you spent a decade and a quarter million dollars learning to produce. For $20 a month. That is not disruption. Disruption replaces a product with a better product. This dissolves the scarcity your entire career was priced on. Not because the work disappeared. Because the wall around it did. Every profession that exists because knowledge is hard to acquire. Every company that profits because analysis takes time. Every industry that survives because complexity locks outsiders out. All of it rests on a single assumption. That cognition is scarce. AI does not challenge that assumption. It retires it. The people who understand this are already rebuilding. Quietly. Deliberately. While everyone else argues about whether the thing underneath them is real. Bezos did not give you a prediction. He gave you a position on a map. You are either above the new layer or beneath it.show more

THIS 20-YEAR-OLD GIRL BROKE DOWN 5 COMPANIES IN 3D... PRINTING AND FOUND WHERE THE MONEY ACTUALLY IS 3D printing looks like the business of the future, with hundreds of millions in investment swirling around it. But look closely at the ones who actually made money, and the picture turns out unexpected Every company made millions, but none of them did it on the printing itself. The reason is simple: a printer today is ordered from a catalog, and files copy for free, so anyone can replicate the printing Since the machine is easy to copy, the money shifts to what can't be. Each company has its own niche: > ICON: printing is 1 of 7 phases, the rest is finishing and engineering > Firestorm: prints where a supply chain physically can't reach > Revo: years of work on the salmon recipe, not the extruder itself > Replasia: the implant is in trials, but the measurements already sell > Alquist: a single corporate client ordered 200 buildings It works like this: first you find your niche, whether it's a client with repeat orders, a rare material or a place with no competition. And only then do you buy the printer Do it the other way and buy the machine first, and you're left competing on price with a factory and losing. The printer is just a tool, the money comes from everything built around itshow more

Most AI Projects In Crypto Are Liars. Sentient is... different. It is the only project in Web3 pursuing true Artificial General Intelligence. A few facts that set it apart: 1. First-of-its-kind: Sentient is not just building AI tools, but an open, crypto-native path to AGI. 2. Community-owned intelligence: Instead of Big Tech locking up breakthroughs, progress is built openly and shared on-chain. 3. Value capture: Every step forward in intelligence accrues to the ecosystem itself, not to a closed corporation. 4. Product before hype: While dozens of AI projects launch at $300M–$2B FDV with little to show, Sentient is shipping real technology first. 5. Designed to evolve: Its architecture is built to learn, adapt, and scale like a human mind. 6. The singularity play in crypto: Many see Sentient as the Tesla-equivalent for AGI—but crypto-native. In time, people will understand that this isn’t just another AI project. It’s the beginning of decentralized intelligence.show more

Elon Musk just identified the next crisis in AI.... It’s not a shortage. It’s an unusable surplus. Musk: “By the end of this year, chip production will outpace the ability to turn chips on.” For three years the world was starved for silicon. Every lab, every government, every company racing to secure the chips that determine who wins the AI era. That bottleneck is ending. A new one is replacing it. Musk: “The chips are going to be piling up and not be able to be turned on.” Billions of dollars of the most advanced AI hardware ever built. Sitting dark. Not because the chips don’t work. Because there isn’t enough electricity to run them. You can’t print a power plant the way you print a chip. The fabrication plants scaled. The grid didn’t. And now the most valuable hardware in history is about to hit a wall that no amount of capital can instantly solve. Compute is about to become abundant. Electricity is about to become the most valuable commodity on earth. Three years obsessing over silicon yields. Physics doesn’t care about your chip architecture if your data center can’t pull enough megawatts. The war isn’t about who can manufacture the most silicon anymore. It’s about who has the raw power to plug it in. Whoever solves energy first doesn’t just win. They own the infrastructure everyone else needs to compete. The losers stack useless chips in warehouses waiting for power that never arrives. We built a trillion dollar engine and forgot the fuel. That’s the AI race right now.show more

Google just built Cowork and called it Agent. And... they added one thing Anthropic didn't. You set a goal. It browses the web, digs through your Gmail, checks your Calendar, pulls from Drive then executes the full task. Book a trip. Clear your inbox. Research a market. Done. No back and forth. But here's the part nobody's talking about: There's a toggle "Require a human review." You don't build that unless the plan is to eventually not require it. Google just told you where this ends. I share updates like these in my free AI community on WhatsApp. Join here 👇show more

THIS GUY BUILT A TOOL THAT TURNS YOUR STARTUP... SCREENSHOTS INTO POLISHED WALKTHROUGH VIDEOS you drop in a screenshot of your app and it generates a full motion video walkthrough or feature announcement no after effects, no premiere, no motion designer needed, and no spending 3 hours on a 15 second clip just upload your screenshot and it animates everything into a clean product demo you can use on your landing page or social media launch every startup founder has the same problem. you build something great but your demo video looks horrible. a screen recording with a cursor clicking around randomly this solves that. the output looks CLEAN and professional if you're launching anything right now you should probably use this asapshow more

AOC claims that you can’t earn a billion dollars.... Her sentiment is based on wanting to spread the wealth around. On its face, that sounds nice. But what she’s not considering is that one of the reasons people accumulate massive amounts of wealth is because they take massive amounts of legal risks. One benefit of being an employee is that you have little risk if the company you work for goes out of business. You just need to find another job. But if you run the company or own a significant part of it, then you’re more heavily invested in its success. Billionaires like Elon Musk took enormous risks to accumulate enormous wealth. Perhaps AOC should consider that. (Video: AI)show more

The world just paid $2 trillion for a rocket... company that lost $4.9 billion last year. And the rockets are not why it lost the money. They are the only part making any. SpaceX went public Friday, the largest IPO in history. Up 19%, a $2 trillion valuation, Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Then you open the filing. Three businesses sit inside it. Starlink, the satellites, brought in $11.4 billion, 61% of all revenue, and $4.4 billion in profit. It is the only piece that earns a dollar. The rockets that land themselves run a small loss reinvesting in Starship. And the AI arm, Grok plus the app once called Twitter, folded in this February, lost $6.4 billion in a single year on $12.7 billion of spending. Read that again. The satellites pay for everything. The AI loses more than the satellites make. And the AI is the part the market fell in love with. It gets bolder. The prospectus claims a total market of $28.5 trillion, the largest any company has ever put in a filing. Larger than the GDP of the United States. That is the number underwriting a $2 trillion price tag built on a division bleeding $6 billion a year. Now the structure. About 4% of the company trades. That sliver sets the price for all of it. Musk is locked up for 366 days and holds roughly 80% of the votes. The public bought a company they cannot steer, priced on the one segment losing the most. This is the whole year in one ticker. The profit is satellites. The story is AI. The market bought the story. The rockets were never the risk. The risk is a $2 trillion price resting on the one bet that has yet to make a cent.show more

Build Mode is back February 19 🧩 In Season... 2, we're tackling a make-or-break challenge every founder faces: building the right team. Subscribe right here: and listen in as founders talk less about hype, and more about the reality of building.show more