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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Gamma’s Grant Lee, Engine’s Elia Wallen, and GV’s Crystal Huang on landing your first 1,000 customers
Leaders from Gamma, Engine, and Google Ventures join TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to talk how to get your first customers. Register now to save up to $100. Grab a second pass at 50% off.
Three days. Thousands of founders, investors, and operators all in one building
Three days. Thousands of founders, investors, and operators all in one building. Disrupt 2026 runs Oct. 13-15 with more than 200 sessions across six stages, with a big focus on building AI in the real world, not just hype and theory. The sessions give you the ideas, and the rest of the time connec

Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust?
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition leading to hundreds of proposed and enacted moratoriums from New York to San Francisco. Meanwhile, a wave of s




