2223T2 Silicon Valley/Participant Information/Darryl Poh
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About Darryl
SMU email: darryl.poh.2022@scis.smu.edu.sg
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darryl-poh/
Academic Year: Year 1 (2022)
Degree: BSc Information Systems
Why Virtual TSM?
- What motivates you to join TSM?
I would like to join this programme as TSM provides a platform for me to experience technology and entrepreneurship at the heart of the most bustling tech scene in the world: the US. I have always been curious to learn more about other cultures and people from all walks of life. TSM provides me an opportunity to interact with the greatest minds overseas and I strongly believe that this programme will shape me to be a more innovative and critical thinker.
Furthermore, TSM gathers like-minded individuals like myself that have a burning passion for techneurpreneurship! I hope to learn from everyone's experience and build strong ties beyond the classroom.
- Where would you like to visit?
Silicon Valley: Google, Databricks, Oracle, Salesforce, The Intel Museum
Starting a business
- What types of business interest you?
I am interested in businesses that not only provide value to the users, but also in turn are able to make the users provide value on their platform. Such an example would be TikTok and Google.
I am also interested in start ups that are in their scaling phase. I am interested to find out what are some indicators that signal for a business to start scaling and the difficulties that they encountered while scaling.
Starting a business
- What plans do you have in starting a business?
I currently do not have any concrete plans of starting a business as I am hoping to hone and refine my technical skills before doing so. In the meantime, I will ensure that I am up to date with the latest technologies so that when I am more well equipped with the technical skills, I am ready to implement it.
Past Experiences (optional)
Internships:
- Pigeonlab – Software Engineer Intern: Nov 2021 to Aug 2022
CCA:
- SMUBIA – Member: Sep 2022 to Present
- .Hack - Member: Sep 2022 to Present
- Floorball– Member: Sep 2022 to Present
- Ultimate – Member: Sep 2022 to Present
