#Founder

Successfully replacing a founder requires listening before acting, understanding the company's informal dynamics and building credibility through clear, consistent leadership.

Bending Spoons closed its all-cash Miro deal on Monday. Some former Miro shareholders reinvested about $295m in 6.2 million new shares.

I look at old .exe files for a living. Here's how I tell what they're built with in 2...

Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scaling companies…

TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is coming to SoWa Power Station in Boston on November 4, bringing founders, investors, and operators together for a full day of candid conversations, practical sessions, live pitching, networking, and smaller roundtables…

Warhound plans to use gene editing and cloning to produce healthier, more capable working dogs for the U.S. military, with the first puppies expected in 2027.

I'm a founder building a bug bounty settlement protocol (ZK-PoE, Sepolia testnet, not mainnet). The idea: you run the exploit against an authorized target, a notary signs the HTTP response, and a Groth16 proof shows the secret was captured.…

SpaceX founder Elon Musk warned Democrats over a possible congressional probe on Wednesday, writing, “live by the sword, die by the sword.” “Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come…

Anduril’s co-founder and entrepreneur Ben Lamm conceived of company to clone and genetically edit working canines

Cognition co-founder and President Russell Kaplan explains why the next frontier of AI in software engineering is about more than writing code faster and what it takes to turn autonomous agents into measurable business value.

Tim Varelmann, the founder of Bluebird Optimization, which helps companies automate complex decision-making, speaks with host Sriram Panyam about mathematical optimization.…

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Last month (actually it was August—I’ve been busy), my desperate plea to founders to please stop sending AI slop decks went viral. I wrote it because my Monday-morning pitch deck review routine had gone from exciting to neutral to mildly annoying to…

Choosing the wrong co-founder can sink a promising business, so use this three-step process to test skills, values and behavior under pressure before handing someone half your company.

TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain tactical insights on building and scaling their companies.

At a YC event last week Brian Chesky gave a talk that everyone who was there will remember. Most founders I talked to afterward said it was the best they'd ever heard. Ron Conway, for the first time in his life, forgot to take notes.…

At a YC event last week Brian Chesky gave a talk that everyone who was there will remember. Most founders I talked to afterward said it was the best they'd ever heard. Ron Conway, for the first time in his life, forgot to take notes.…

At a YC event last week Brian Chesky gave a talk that everyone who was there will remember. Most founders I talked to afterward said it was the best they'd ever heard. Ron Conway, for the first time in his life, forgot to take notes.…