Don\u2019t miss the insights from this panel \u2014 and the full Disrupt 2025 lineup of tech and scaling leaders shaping the scaling discussions. Register here to save up to $675.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Who\u2019s joining the Builder\u2019s stage<\/p>\n Randi Jakubowitz<\/a>, head of Operations and Talent at 645 Ventures<\/a>, knows what it takes to scale teams from the inside. Before helping portfolio companies find their footing, she was one of the early HR hires at Seamless, guiding the company through its merger with Grubhub and eventual IPO. She gets the people puzzle, and how to solve it under pressure.<\/p>\n Joining her onstage is Rebecca Lee Whiting<\/a>, founder of Epigram Legal and fractional general counsel to some of the most cutting-edge AI and biotech startups around. She\u2019s built a reputation for demystifying legal complexity, advising on everything from equity structuring to retention strategies. Oh, and she also clerked for the Ninth Circuit, so she\u2019s not just startup-savvy, she\u2019s a legal heavyweight.<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s Yin Wu<\/a>, the founder and CEO of Pulley<\/a>, the YC-backed equity management platform that\u2019s helping over 5,000 companies take control of their cap tables. Before building Pulley, she launched and sold Echo to Microsoft and has a track record of launching (and learning from) startups. If there\u2019s anyone who knows what a great equity package looks like, and how to communicate its value to employees, it\u2019s Yin.<\/p>\n Why you need to lean in on this session<\/p>\n This session will cut through the noise to answer the questions every founder struggles with: How much should you actually offer early employees? How do you stay competitive with Big Tech without burning through your runway? And how do you structure equity in a way that makes people want to stick around for the long haul?Don\u2019t miss this one. It all goes down October 27-29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, part of the 20th anniversary of TechCrunch Disrupt<\/a>. The exact session time is coming soon, but trust us, you\u2019ll want a front-row seat \u2014 so register now<\/strong><\/a> and don\u2019t miss your chance to save up to $675 before rates rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Startups live and die by their early hires. And in a world where top talent has options \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,608,607,609,610,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-disrupt-2025","10":"tag-entrepreneurship","11":"tag-techcrunch-disrupt","12":"tag-techcrunch-disrupt-2025","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114718031425115418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"TechCrunch](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/TC25_Jakubowitz-Whiting-Wu-Speaker-16x9-Dark.png\")
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