A 13-Year-Old Turned a Free Trading Card of a Viral Racoon Into $20,100: ‘Every Dime Is Going to Her College Fund’
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Only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: What happens when OpenAI ships your roadmap?
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He Took a Pizza Delivery Job to Pay Off Student Loans. Forty Years Later, He Owns 160 Domino’s Stores.
Brian Bailey bought his first Domino’s at 27, and has since helped six of his own employees become franchisees too.
Superhuman acquires YC-backed notetaker Fathom as productivity platforms push for agentic work
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The last day to apply for an exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on Sept 18. Just 5 days left. Secure your spot on the Expo Hall floor and put your business in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech leaders.
10 Things Every Entrepreneur Needs to Do With the Creator Economy and AI Search to Build a Business
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Jersey Mike’s Just Held Its First Earnings Call and Revealed the Magic Number They Expect Every Sandwich Shop to Hit
The 50-year-old sandwich chain went public in July. Its first earnings call laid out a path to 15,000 locations worldwide.
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a startup offering fun music apps without any AI prompting
Former Spotify exec’s company releases experimental “singles” that involves users in music making.
Anthropic CEO Warns AI Could ‘Outrun Our Ability to Understand and Control’ It
In a 3,800-word essay, Dario Amodei called for a global slowdown of AI. Sam Altman agrees.
Insight Partners’ Devin Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic
Insight Partners’ Devin Parekh opens up about losing Legora to General Catalyst, why he’s fine holding stakes in rival AI labs, and why — even as everyone else piles into OpenAI and Anthropic — his $90 billion firm is deliberately staying diversified.