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Growth Summit

Web Summit Lisbon


November 9-12, 2026

The new math of scaling

Meet the leaders from fast-growing companies that joined us

Raquel Urtasun - Web Summit

Raquel Urtasun

Founder & CEO
Waabi

Travis Kalanick - Web Summit

Travis Kalanick

Founder,
Uber

Vasco Pedro - Web Summit

Vasco Pedro

Co-founder & CEO
Spinnable AI

Nick Frosst - Web Summit

Nick Frosst

Co-founder
Cohere

Rhiannon White - CEO - Clue

Rhiannon White

CEO
Clue

Nik Storonsky - Founder and CEO - Revolut

Nik Storonsky

Founder & CEO
Revolut

Lin Qiao - Fireworks AI

Lin Qiao

CEO & Co-founder
Fireworks AI

Maria Raga - Depop

Maria Raga

CEO
Depop

Christine Spang - Nylas

Christine Spang

Founde & CEO
Nylas

Michelle Zatlyn - Co-founder and President - Cloudflare

Michelle Zatlyn

Co-founder & President
Cloudflare

Headlined by industry-leading organisations

The companies shaping the future of technology and business.

Playbooks designed to thrive, not just survive

Goodbye to "growth at all costs". A new playbook has emerged – one built on lean operations, capital efficiency, and high-leverage scale. Growth Summit is the definitive masterclass for founders navigating the chasm between early traction and market dominance. We bring together builders, battle-tested operators, and elite growth strategists to dissect the unwritten execution rules, structural choices, and raw metrics required to build a resilient, generational company from the ground up.

Hypergrowth and scaling

The funding landscape

Purpose and profit

Adapting for success

The shift from early-stage hustle to full-scale operations is a total system reset.
This is where we look at the messy, high-stakes reality of expanding your footprint: building repeatable sales engines, breaking into new international territories, and fixing the infrastructure that breaks the second you try to scale it. It’s all about the strategic and operational friction of growing up fast.

Hypergrowth and scaling

The funding landscape

Purpose and profit

Adapting for success

Securing capital right now requires an entirely different playbook. The era of easy money is gone, and founders are navigating an incredibly uncertain economic landscape.
We're diving into what it actually takes to get investors to open their checkbooks today... shifting the narrative from raw, idealistic vision to undeniable unit economics, capital efficiency, and runway discipline.

Hypergrowth and scaling

The funding landscape

Purpose and profit

Adapting for success

Building a great company can't just be about the balance sheet anymore; modern giants have to stand for something real. We’re exploring how fast-growing startups can meaningfully prioritise purpose beyond the profit line.
This is an honest look at how you embed sustainability, ethics, and genuine social impact into your DNA without losing your commercial edge or stalling your velocity.

Hypergrowth and scaling

The funding landscape

Purpose and profit

Adapting for success

If the last few years have taught us anything, it's that rigidity kills companies. True resilience is about the art of survival: knowing when to execute a hard pivot, how to handle a painful internal reorganisation, and when to completely throw out the old playbook to think outside the box.
We’ll hear from the builders who stared a crisis in the face and reinvented themselves to win anyway.

Highlights from our events

Insights from the founders, operators, and innovators building the world's fastest-growing companies.

AI code drives scale. Can you keep up?

AI code drives scale. Can you keep up?

Graphite's founder and CEO Merrill Lutsky discussed how teams can safely carry the explosion of code changes through deployment and meaningfully collaborate with each other and AI agents to achieve more, informed by his company's own workflows and journey to product-market fit.

Scalability

AI

AI’s next moat isn’t the better model

AI’s next moat isn’t the better model

Mirai co-founder and co-CEO Dima Shvets explored how speed, cost, and deployment location are the ultimate "moats" in AI. He also shared exactly what this means for teams building and scaling AI-powered products.

Scaling

AI

Every customer, every question, every time

Every customer, every question, every time

Drawing on data from 200+ contact centers, Crescendo's founder and CEO Matt Price showed why AI's biggest commercial impact isn't cost reduction. It's the 3-4x conversion lift his customers see when service conversations become sales.

AI

Optimisation

How to build the team that builds the company

How to build the team that builds the company

John Kim, co-founder and CEO at Paraform, explored how to solve recruiting’s trust issues while scaling through the Series B stage. He shared how to design high-growth marketplaces, navigate team formation, and expand into new verticals without rebuilding a product from scratch.

Leadership

Recruiting