How AI is Rewriting the Scaling Playbook

Even as recently as five years ago, the level of operational tooling available to founders was a world away from the capabilities present today, and companies are scaling using a completely different playbook. Founders are now skipping the regional phase entirely, compressing years of work into months, and launching products globally from day one. In this fireside chat, Douglas Stark (Voi) and Tobias Bengtsdahl (former founder-turned-investor at Antler in the Nordics) will lay out what this new era of scaling looks like, reflections on how AI has made the tech world default-global, the force multipliers today's founders are wielding, and advice to those thinking of starting up in 2026.