Inertia co-founder Jeff Lawson’s next big bet is fusion: Go inside it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
THE SO WHAT
Founder talent rotating from software into fusion is a talent-allocation tell—cheap, abundant power is now a credible enough prize to attract repeat operators. For energy-intensive businesses, that means long-term planning should include scenarios where power cost curves bend down faster than your current models assume.
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