GV general partner Frederique Dame, NEA partner Danielle Lay, and Insight Partners managing director Rebecca Liu-Doyle speak onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 at Moscone Center on September 20, 2023 in San Francisco, California.
GV general partner Frederique Dame, NEA partner Danielle Lay, and Insight Partners managing director Rebecca Liu-Doyle listen to a founder speak onstage during a pitch contest at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023.

Each year, droves of tech founders, funders, and dreamers descend on TechCrunch Disrupt. And for years the event was regarded as a kind of fashion wasteland. Hoodies and ill-fitting jeans passed as the uniform onstage and at after parties. Back in 2015, GQ felt compelled to write an entire tribute to the "one well-dressed man" at the conference.