Eric Yuan and Santi Subotovsky on breakout success at Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch

You’ve constructed the hit product — now what? That’s the query Zoom CEO Eric Yuan and Emergence Capital common associate Santi Subotovsky will tackle of their session, “What Comes After Breakout Success?” From increasing into new markets to launching the subsequent product bets, this panel will discover how nice corporations keep away from changing into one-hit wonders.

Count on insights into the robust calls between focus and diversification, how one can maintain innovating at scale, and what traders search for in a second act. They’ll deliver this dialog to the Going Public Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, the place 10,000+ startup and VC leaders will collect to form the way forward for tech.

Main by means of transformation

Since founding Zoom in 2011, Eric Yuan has guided the corporate from startup to its IPO in 2019, reshaping how the world connects and collaborates. Right now, he’s main Zoom’s AI-first technique to rework how individuals work, talk, and create. His management has earned him recognition on the Bloomberg 50, Time’s 100 Most Influential Individuals, and UC Right now’s UC Chief of the 12 months. Previous to Zoom, he was VP of engineering at Cisco and a founding engineer at Webex, and he holds greater than 50 patents in real-time collaboration.

Recognizing breakout potential earlier than the world catches on

Since becoming a member of Emergence Capital in 2010, Santi Subotovsky has been a driving drive behind a few of its most profitable investments, together with Refrain and Openpath. He led Emergence’s funding in Zoom when it was a little-known startup and stays on its board as the corporate now stands at a $24 billion market cap. He additionally serves on the boards of Crunchbase, Logik.ai, Zipline, Tundra, and Class.

After transferring from Argentina to the U.S., Subotovsky co-founded Puente Labs, serving to high-growth Latin American entrepreneurs increase internationally. A Kauffman Fellow and Endeavor Entrepreneur, he’s a three-time member of the Midas Checklist and one among solely three Latin American VCs to attain that distinction.

The second act playbook

Breakout success is simply the start. Yuan and Subotovsky deliver each operator and investor views to the problem of scaling a enterprise past its first huge win. For those who’re aiming to construct an organization that thrives long-term, this panel will equip you with the insights to suppose greater about your subsequent act.

Don’t miss Eric Yuan, Santi Subotovsky, and tons of extra prime tech voices at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. Financial savings are nonetheless stay till September 26 — save as much as $668 by registering immediately.