Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his

Let’s conscionable get this retired of the way: Mark Wahlberg is arsenic A-list arsenic it gets. He broke retired successful 1997’s “Boogie Nights,” and successful the astir 3 decades since, he’s built 1 of the highest-wattage careers successful Hollywood: 2 Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe motion for “The Fighter,” aggregate Emmy nominations arsenic a shaper (HBO’s “Entourage” among them), and a filmography that spans transgression dramas, comedies, and enactment blockbusters. Right now, he’s backmost connected surface successful “By Any Means,” a manhunt thriller acceptable during the 1966 Mississippi civilian rights killings.

He’s besides signaling wherever he’s progressively turning his attention. Wahlberg volition beryllium down with Bruce K. Lee, Founder and CEO of Keebeck Wealth Management, connected the main signifier astatine TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to speech astir his ain progression. Grab your summons here truthful you don’t miss a infinitesimal of this league and Disrupt 2026. Ticket prices summation connected September 25.

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From Hollywood to business venture

His acting vocation is truly conscionable portion of the picture. Over the past 2 decades, Wahlberg has built a accumulation company, a edifice chain, apparel and fittingness ventures, a slate of angel investments, and the present 25-year-old Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation, which supports inner-city kids and teens. He’s utilized his Hollywood occurrence to motorboat large projects good extracurricular the movie concern — and successful a fireside chat astatine this year’s Disrupt, he’s going to springiness america a peek into how.

Building an investing mindset

Wahlberg, who’s leaned astir wholly connected entrepreneurial instinct astir people, culture, products, and markets, is present idiosyncratic who’s been gathering institutional-level investing discipline, with Lee arsenic his guide, and with a increasing absorption connected healthcare and wellness startups. It’s a rare, unvarnished look astatine however idiosyncratic with Wahlberg’s taste quality has worked his mode into immoderate of the astir blase rooms successful concern and finance.

That includes wherever high-profile entertainers and athletes sometimes get it incorrect (Wahlberg is candid astir having had to unlearn immoderate of his ain aged instincts); however he’s utilized the spot built implicit a monolithic vocation to thrust entree and woody flow; and which technologies he’s astir focused connected close present and why.

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Go wrong Wahlberg’s playbook

If you’ve watched Wahlberg physique brands, franchises, and businesses implicit the past decennary and wondered, “Who is this guy?”—you won’t privation to miss this conversation. Mistakes, mentorship, the mechanics of leveling up successful a competitory investing landscape—we’ll screen it each astatine Disrupt.

Join Wahlberg and Lee connected the Disrupt Stage, alongside 250+ of tech’s apical leaders crossed 200+ sessions covering what it takes to physique a viable startup and signifier the adjacent procreation of innovation. On October 13-15, 10,000+ tech leaders volition converge astatine San Francisco’s Moscone West. Don’t miss your accidental to alteration the trajectory of your startup. Grab your walk present and prevention up to $200 earlier rates summation September 25.

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