Leading VC William Bao Bean, partner at SOSV and managing director of Orbit Startups explains how he started to develop startups in Pakistan, using his Shanghai experience as a stepping stone.Read More →
Marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok explains how content producers can create and monetize their intellectual property (IP). The country is leaving behind its image of a robber of IP and has developed a booming industry of cultural products, allowing to make real money, she explains at her vlog.Read More →
China’s internet censors took down a popular influencer showing a tofu tank, which suddenly made this year internet users aware of an issue that was mostly ignored: Beijing’s tank man on June 4, 1989. Political expert Shaun Rein explains how the censor shot into his own food at ABC News.Read More →
Bytedance, the mother company of Douyin and TikTok, became the first to use artificial intelligence to hook their users in an unprecedented way, says China internet expert Matthew Brennan to Play Crazy Game. The TikTok algorithms turns its users into addicts, in the same way drugs do, says Brennan.Read More →
Serial investor William Bao Bean, general partner of SOSV in Shanghai, started in 2021 to invest in his first startup ventures in Africa. In Disrupt-Africa he explains how his experience in China helps him to make his first investments in Africa.Read More →
Bytedance’s Tiktok has become a global gamechanger, and extraordinary achievements from a China-based company, says innovation analyst Matthew Brennan, author of Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China’s ByteDance at Spectra 2021.Read More →
Long working hours have changed many consumption habits for young workers in tech companies, explains consumption expert Ashley Dudarenok at her vlog. But now the 996 working culture has been banned by the government, will the world for those young tech workers become more healthy? Read More →
CFR-scholar Ian Johnson describes how oral history changes the perception people have about the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, now documents and interviews emerge on the internet, he tells at the Manchester China Institute.Read More →
After provincial authorities started to limit operations of cryptocurrencies earlier this year, last week a full ban was issued by 10 ministries. Financial analyst Winston Wenyan Ma explains Bloomberg what the central government is doing to cryptocurrencies, the relation with the upcoming digital currency and its possible fallout on a global level.Read More →
Some investors have been suggesting that the latest political changes in China have made India an easier place to invest. VC veteran William Bao Bean, with major experience in both countries, disagrees, he tells in the South China Morning Post. He believes the government’s efforts to break the duopoly of Tencent and Alibaba makes China for him even more attractive.Read More →
Growing and making profits on the internet has been relatively easy for China’s tech firms when the industry took off, says veteran Internet watcher Matthew Brennan to the state-owned CGTN. But those easy gains are over now the government stepped in to regulate the industry and massive growth is harder to get, he adds.Read More →
China passed in August 2021 its Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), comparable to Europe’s GDPR. China lawyer Mark Schaub has at his webinar a look back at the road to PIPL. The PIPL will be in force on November 1, 2021.Read More →