Eric Yuan and Santi Subotovsky on breakout success at Disrupt 2025

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

Anticipate insights into the robust calls between focus and diversification, the right way to maintain innovating at scale, and what traders search for in a second act. They’ll carry 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 via transformation

Since founding Zoom in 2011, Yuan has guided the corporate from startup to IPO in 2019, reshaping how the world connects and collaborates. Right this moment, he’s main Zoom’s AI-first technique to rework how folks work, talk, and create. His management has earned him recognition on the Bloomberg 50, Time’s 100 Most Influential Folks, and UC Right this moment’s UC Chief of the Yr. 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, 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.io, 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 Record and one in all solely three Latin American VCs to realize that distinction.

The second act playbook

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

Don’t miss Eric Yuan, Santi Subotovsky, and a whole lot extra prime tech voices at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. Common Hen financial savings are nonetheless reside — till September 26 — save as much as $668 by registering at the moment.