{"id":94496,"date":"2026-10-23T14:44:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T14:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/can-you-still-build-a-breakout-company-without-ai-investors-and-a-founder-weigh-in-disrupt-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T14:44:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T14:44:27","slug":"can-you-still-build-a-breakout-company-without-ai-investors-and-a-founder-weigh-in-disrupt-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/can-you-still-build-a-breakout-company-without-ai-investors-and-a-founder-weigh-in-disrupt-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Still Build a Breakout Company Without AI? Investors and a Founder Weigh In | Disrupt 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When every pitch is an AI pitch, do fundamentals still win? General Catalyst Partner Mark Crane, Baillie Gifford Investment Manager <!--more--> Shan Shan, and ALSO Founder Chris Yu make the case for efficient growth, retention, and revenue quality over hype. <\/p>\n<p>#TechCrunchDisrupt2026<\/p>\n<p>Follow us across&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/techcrunch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/techcrunch<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/techcrunch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/x.com\/techcrunch<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/techcrunch.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/techcrunch.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/techcrunch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/instagram.com\/techcrunch<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/techcrunch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/techcrunch\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/<\/a>@techcrunch <\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When every pitch is an AI pitch, do fundamentals still win? General Catalyst Partner Mark Crane, Baillie Gifford Investment Manager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}