Tech startups vie for investors, fans, and media attention at a TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco on September 18, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Glenn CHAPMAN
SAN FRANCISCO: Fearing failure but driven by a chance at Silicon Valley stardom, young entrepreneurs pitch their dreams in mere minutes at startup competitions like TechCrunch Disrupt that ended here on Sept 20.
Brian Chae came from Seoul to try his luck at the annual startup scrum, which lets competitors fight for their futures on-stage before venture capitalist judges in a “Startup Battlefield.”
