The idea of hiring your “first critical engineer” is getting a serious reality check at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 , October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West .

Join Lauri Moore , partner at Bessemer Venture Partners , and David Cramer , co-founder and chief product officer at Sentry , and Zach Lloyd , founder and CEO of Warp, on the Builders Stage for a candid conversation about how developer tools are reshaping early product development.

Moore brings deep expertise in AI, infrastructure, and developer tooling from both the investor and founder perspectives. Cramer, who launched Sentry as an open source side project in 2012 and scaled it into a platform used by over 4 million developers, offers firsthand insights into how the right tools — and hires — can accelerate

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