Tonight, at Playground Global in Palo Alto, some very smart people who are building things you don’t understand yet will explain what’s coming. This is the final StrictlyVC event of 2025 , and truly, the lineup is ridiculous.

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The series has traveled around the globe under the auspices of TechCrunch. Steve Case rented a theater in Washington, D.C.; we talked to Greece’s prime minister in Athens; and Kirsten Green hosted us at the Presidio in San Francisco. The concept is always the same, though: bring together people who are working on genuinely important developments in a smaller setting, before everyone else figures out they’re important.

One of our favorite moments was when, in 2019, Sam Altman told a StrictlyVC crowd that OpenAI’s mon

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