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Mark Wahlberg joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The actor and entrepreneur will discuss his shift from Hollywood to building businesses, investments, and his evolving focus on healthcare and wellness startups.
In brief
The actor and entrepreneur will discuss his shift from Hollywood to building businesses, investments, and his evolving focus on healthcare and wellness startups. Mark Wahlberg will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco on October thirteen to fifteen about his transition from acting to building businesses…
From Boogie Nights to the boardroom
Mark Wahlberg broke out in nineteen ninety-seven's Boogie Nights and built a high-wattage Hollywood career with two Academy Award nominations and multiple Emmy nominations as a producer.
Wahlberg speaks at Disrupt 2026
Wahlberg will sit down with Bruce K. Lee, founder and CEO of Keebeck Wealth Management, on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to discuss his progression beyond acting.
Building beyond Hollywood
Over two decades, Wahlberg has built a production company, restaurant chain, apparel and fitness ventures, angel investments, and the now twenty-five-year-old Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation supporting inner-city kids.
From instinct to institutional discipline
Wahlberg has leaned on entrepreneurial instinct about people, culture, products, and markets while building institutional-level investing discipline with Lee, focusing on healthcare and wellness startups.
Learning from mistakes
Wahlberg discusses where high-profile entertainers and athletes get it wrong, how he has unlearned old instincts, and how he has used career trust to drive access and deal flow.
Disrupt 2026 brings ten thousand leaders
On October thirteen to fifteen, ten thousand plus tech leaders will converge at San Francisco's Moscone West for two hundred plus sessions covering what it takes to build viable startups.
Ticket savings end tonight
Disrupt ticket savings of up to two hundred dollars plus fifty percent off a second pass end September twenty-fifth at eleven fifty-nine pm PT. Rates increase after today.
The bottom line
Mark Wahlberg will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco on October thirteen to fifteen about his transition from acting to building businesses and making investments.
