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LA Tech Week 2026

Behind the Product: How Startups Actually Build

Hosted by Rita Sargsyan

When
12:00 – 3:00 PM
Where
Westwood
Format
Panel / Fireside Chat
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/ About this event

The best products don’t come from perfect roadmaps.

They come from hard technical decisions, wrong turns, bold bets, pivots, and a lot of figuring things out along the way.

Behind the Product is a curated LA Tech Week event bringing together some of SoCal’s most ambitious technical students, recent grads, and builders with founders, engineers, and technical leaders behind some of today’s most interesting products.

Through candid conversations with the people who actually built them, we’ll explore the technical decisions, challenges, and turning points that shaped the products and systems we use today.

No keynotes. No pitch decks. Just real conversations about how things actually get built.

Interested in getting involved as a speaker, partner, sponsor, or featured product?

Reach out at behindtheproducthq@gmail.com

This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.

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