{"id":13310,"date":"2026-10-19T22:01:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/nvidias-nader-khalil-sydney-sykes-on-building-ai-startups-worth-betting-on-disrupt-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:01:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:01:44","slug":"nvidias-nader-khalil-sydney-sykes-on-building-ai-startups-worth-betting-on-disrupt-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/nvidias-nader-khalil-sydney-sykes-on-building-ai-startups-worth-betting-on-disrupt-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA\u2019s Nader Khalil &amp; Sydney Sykes on Building AI Startups Worth Betting On | Disrupt 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI founders face consequential choices about which models to use, what technology to own, and where to invest their resources. <!--more--> NVIDIA\u2019s Nader Khalil, Director of Developer Tech, and Sydney Sykes, Global Head of VC Partnerships, explore how those decisions shape how startups are built and funded, including the tradeoffs between open and proprietary models and how cost and control influence strategy.<\/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>AI founders face consequential choices about which models to use, what technology to own, and where to invest their resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13313,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}