Toast president Steve Fredette, Bessemer partner Kent Bennett, and Glasswing founder Rudina Seseri will speak on November 4.

TechCrunch will hold its Founder Summit 2026 on November 4 at SoWa Power Station in Boston. The full-day event will partner with Fidelity Private Shares and bring founders, investors, and operators together to discuss customer discovery, team building, pitch preparation, founder leadership, and company scaling.

Toast president and co-founder Steve Fredette will discuss how a company keeps reinventing itself after reaching scale. Bessemer Venture Partners partner Kent Bennett will focus on signals that show product-market fit before a startup expands. Glasswing Ventures founder Rudina Seseri will cover when founders should accelerate and when restraint protects the business.

The sessions target founders who need to make growth decisions before they have complete evidence. Operators can use the product-market fit discussion to test whether customers justify new hiring, higher spending, or faster go-to-market work. The scaling session will help leaders separate moments that call for speed from moments that call for discipline.

Founder Summit 2026 will run for one day and charge admission, with a current 25 percent ticket discount and a limited buy-one-get-one offer. Attendees should expect a program that goes beyond fundraising and artificial intelligence into customer acquisition, hiring, pitch practice, and founder development. The Boston setting will also show how startups can scale inside and outside established technology hubs.

What matters

• TechCrunch will host Founder Summit 2026 in Boston on November 4 with Fidelity Private Shares as partner.
• Founders can hear sessions on product-market fit, scaling decisions, team building, and customers.
• Sessions will examine when to scale, when to slow down, and how to keep a company evolving.

Why it matters

Sessions will examine when to scale, when to slow down, and how to keep a company evolving.

This GenAI News article was prepared in original wording using reporting and materials published by TechCrunch AI. Source reference: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/23/from-toast-to-bessemer-who-founders-will-hear-from-at-techcrunch-founder-summit-2026/.

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