From Growth-at-All-Costs to Capital Efficiency: How the VC Bar Has Changed

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From Growth-at-All-Costs to Capital Efficiency

Remember the wild days of “growth at all costs”? Those champagne-popping, hyper-scaling years when startups were burning millions just to chase user numbers and market share. Fueled by seemingly endless VC money, the mantra was simple — grow fast, dominate, and figure out profitability later. The party’s over, or at least, the rules have changed. In today’s funding environment, startups...

Hiring a Unicorn at Disrupt25: 3 Non-Negotiable Questions That Vet for Founder-Level DNA

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Disrupt25

The Disruption of the Resume Walking the floor of TechCrunch Disrupt25 you feel it in your veins: the buzz, the deal-flow, the urgency. In three days you’ll handshake dozens of founders, investors, scouts and partners—and the pressure is on to strike on talent and alliances quickly. But speed can kill quality. As the hype intensifies, so does the risk of...

Why Your Slack Channel Is Now the Most Dangerous Place in Your Career (And the Only Way to Win)

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Why Your Slack Channel Is Now the Most Dangerous Place in Your Career

1. The Hook: Slack Is No Longer Just a Chat App When Dreamforce 2025 wrapped, most people expected a few incremental updates. What they got instead was a seismic rebrand.Salesforce didn’t just upgrade Slack — it repositioned it as the “Agentic OS.” Inside this new ecosystem lives Agentforce 360 — a network of autonomous AI agents capable of performing entire workflows...

Your New Coworker Doesn’t Need a Desk: 3 Roles Agentic AI Will Steal (And 3 It Will Multiply)

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3 Roles Agentic AI Will Steal

The Agentic Era Begins Dreamforce 2025 marked a turning point in how we think about work. Gone are the days when AI merely suggested what to do next — now it does the work. Salesforce’s unveiling of Agentforce 360 wasn’t just another product demo; it was a redefinition of human-machine collaboration. For the first time, AI agents can manage entire...

The $5,000 Question: Is Dreamforce 2025 Worth the Hype

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The $5,000 Question: Is Dreamforce 2025 Worth the Hype

(Or Did You Just Waste Your Best Networking Opportunity?) Let’s cut to the chase. You bought the badge, booked the hotel, battled badge pick-up lines, and wandered through the sensory-overload jungle of Dreamforce 2025. Tony Robbins was shouting. Salesforce AI bots were flirting with your CRM strategy. Somewhere, someone offered you vegan churros while demoing a pipeline automation tool. It was…...