TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Netflix CTO announces interactive real-time voting for live content

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Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone announced at TechCrunch Disrupt that the streaming service is branching out into immersive and interactive experiences, starting with real-time voting. The move marks a new way for the streamer to boost engagement, as it allows audiences of live shows to interact in real-time. Viewers will be able to vote while watching […]

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Cyphr will reveal how it makes lending easier for small businesses at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

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It happened one day.   Jannae Gammage was working with the Small Business Administration as a technology consultant, helping companies get access to capital through traditional lenders, like banks and credit unions. She couldn’t stop thinking, however, that there was a problem: The ways in which lenders and businesses connected were woefully outdated, especially on the technological front.   “I was inside the mess, watching good businesses die,

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Identifee, built by Wells Fargo alumni, unifies productivity tech for bankers into a single platform — catch it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

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Vram Ismaliyan spent nearly 14 years at Wells Fargo, selling payment infrastructure strategies to Fortune 500 companies.  Despite being a top performer in the payments division, he felt constantly bogged down by the bank’s antiquated technology. “I spent at least five to 10 hours preparing for customer meetings,” he told TechCrunch. “I had to work

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Elloe AI wants to be the ‘immune system’ for AI — check it out at Disrupt 2025

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Owen Sakawa, the founder of Elloe AI, wants his platform to be the “immune system for AI” and the “antivirus for any AI agent.”   The idea, Sakawa said in an interview days before the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, where Elloe AI is a Top 20 finalist in the Startup Battlefield competition, is to add a

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CyDeploy wants to create a replica of a company’s system to help it test updates before pushing them out — catch it at Disrupt 2025

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For any company using software, there is often a difficult balance between patching systems as quickly as possible to prevent cyberattacks while also making sure the updates don’t break how those systems work.  That’s where the startup CyDeploy wants to help.   The company’s founder, Tina Williams-Koroma, explained to TechCrunch that the idea of CyDeploy

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VC Vinod Khosla says the US government could take 10% stake in all public companies to soften the blow of AGI

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Vinod Khosla has a bold vision for how society could be reconfigured to share the abundance created by AI technology. Speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference on Tuesday, the Khosla Ventures founder suggested the U.S. government could take a 10% stake in all public corporations and redistribute that corporate wealth to the public at

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: How to watch Vinod Khosla, Netflix, Slate Auto, and Startup Battlefield

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is here! If you’re still on the fence about attending in person, dive into the extensive schedule of speakers, networking opportunities, workshops, after-parties, and more that’s available here. There’s still plenty of time to get a ticket, and with two days left, we’re offering a 50% discount on tickets. But if you’re

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Venture capital is not an asset class, says Sequoia’s Roelof Botha

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At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Sequoia managing partner Roelof Botha argued that the venture industry isn’t an asset class, and that throwing more money into Silicon Valley doesn’t lead to better companies. “Investing in venture is a return-free risk,” Botha said during an interview on TechCrunch’s Disrupt’s main stage on Monday. “Anybody who’s studied the capital

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CEO of Alphabet’s X, Astro Teller, on what makes a moonshot

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Astro Teller, CEO of X, Alphabet’s “moonshot factory,” where the company incubates the nearly impossible, shared a look into what makes a moonshot and detailed the company’s “fail fast” mantra at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference on Monday. Notable companies that started out as moonshots from X’s moonshot factory include Waymo and Wing. Teller noted

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