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Good Chinese Language Tech Podcasts

A big part of my learning process is listening to audio products – audiobooks, podcasts, earnings calls, investors presentations. I can glean a lot of nuances from listening that are missing from reading transcripts, though listening does take more time. One overlooked genre I listen

Topics: VC• China• Geopolitics•

“Hardtech” Corporate VCs Rising in China

Huawei runs a little-known corporate VC division called Habo Investment. I first wrote about Habo back in early 2021, when it was barely two years old. Yet, at that time, it had already made 22 investments, five of which have gone public on the

Topics: Tencent• VC• Prosus•

Prosus: Softbank Without the Drama

“What is the single best technology investment of all time?” An often-heard answer to this question is Softbank’s early investment in Alibaba. Indeed, Masa Son’s storied $20 million bet on Jack Ma (with his strong, shiny eyes) in 2000 has yielded Softbank

Topics: Low Code No Code• Developer• VC•

Low Code No Code, Part III: Hands-on Experience with Notion, Retool, Bubble, Yida

This post is a guest contribution from Shawn Xu [https://www.linkedin.com/in/shengyangxu/] (no relations). Shawn is a software engineer at TikTok, got his Masters in Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon, and writes an informative WeChat public account on SaaS called

Topics: Low Code No Code• Developer• VC•

Low Code No Code, Part II: How to Ride This Wave

This post is a guest contribution from Shawn Xu [https://www.linkedin.com/in/shengyangxu/] (no relations). Shawn is one of the early engineers at Ascend.io, got his Masters in Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon, and writes an informative WeChat public account

Topics: Mexico• LATAM• VC•

Tech in Mexico: A Confluence of Latin America, the US and Asia

This article was first published on TechCrunch on April 1, 2021 [https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/01/tech-in-mexico-a-confluence-of-latin-america-the-us-and-asia/] . Please see my follow up deep dive post on the LATAM region's engineering talent distribution [https://interconnected.blog/engineering-talent-distribution-mexico-and-latam/]. (The audio version of this