A couple weeks ago, a Shark Tank-esque TVB show called “I Am a Boss” came on our radar.
One episode in particular featured Hong Kong startup Carshare.HK, so we reached out to co-founder Chris Yeung and marketer Joyce Kan to get the skinny on their reality TV show experience.
After applying for the show, Chris and Joyce told us that the Carshare.HK team went for two rounds of interviews before being invited to join an episode of “I Am a Boss.”
Chris says that while the show has been a great opportunity for a startup like Carshare.HK to gain exposure and additional funding of HK$20,000, he said the judges needed to take a harder edge with startups. “The judges were all too nice, and everyone got money basically. They would say ‘we think you’re not ready, but you’re a passionate guy so we’ll still give you the money.’ We spoke to the production crew and told them we thought it could have been tougher.”
