# Anyone Can Build a Company Now. So Why Do Most Still Fail?

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**Date:** March 13, 2026 · 10:00 PM  
**Location:** JW Marriott / Salon C  
**Format:** Presentation  
**Track:** Startups  
**Reviews:** 0

## Speakers

- **Dan McComas** — CTO
- **Oana Ruxandra** — CEO

Solo founders don't need MBAs, VC connections, or permission anymore. The gatekeepers are gone.But access isn't the bottleneck. Uncertainty is. Most founders fail because once they've built, they have no way to know what to do next. The tools got democratized. The knowledge didn't.Join Oana Ruxandra (former Chief Digital Officer, Warner Music Group) and Dan McComas (former Head of Product, Reddit), cofounders who've built from zero and scaled to hundreds of millions of users, on what comes after access and why the next decade of company building won't look anything like the last.

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