On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: How AI is forcing late-stage startups to rewire GTM — or be left behind

AI isn’t conscionable disrupting products — it’s upending however companies sell, scale, and succeed. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 successful San Francisco, we’re diving heavy into however late-stage startups are navigating this shift. Catch this dynamic sheet connected the Going Public Stage, wherever 3 seasoned leaders volition research however AI is transforming go-to-market (GTM) strategies from the wrong out.

Why be this session?

If you’re scaling a startup and wondering however AI fits into your adjacent signifier of growth, this speech is for you. Our panelists volition chopped done the hype to uncover however AI is changing everything from income and selling to lawsuit success. You’ll get penetration into what’s working, what’s not, and however to integrate AI into your GTM question without derailing your absorption oregon team.

Meet the speakers

Nirav Tolia is the CEO, president, and co-founder of Nextdoor, wherever helium leads 1 of the astir recognized assemblage platforms successful tech. Tolia antecedently co-founded and led Epinions.com, was COO astatine Shopping.com, and serves arsenic the non-executive seat of Hedosophia.

Jane Alexander, spouse astatine CapitalG, brings much than 15 years of acquisition gathering and scaling GTM teams. Before joining CapitalG, she was CMO astatine Carta and held enactment roles astatine Salesforce and RelateIQ.

Vanessa Larco is the co-founder of Premise and a erstwhile spouse astatine NEA. With a inheritance successful merchandise enactment and investing, Larco brings a crisp lens to however startups tin turn efficiently — and enactment focused — arsenic AI reshapes merchandise and marketplace strategies.

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