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 post can