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Organizational culture and employee well-being are crucial for the success of any organization. This podcast focuses on topics about organizational culture, employee well-being and anxiety in the workplace. Additionally, we share insights on how leaders can take actionable steps to address these workplace challenges, strengthen culture, improve operational productivity & performance and attract or retain top talent.
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Tech Buzz China by Pandaily is a biweekly technology podcast that is all about China's innovations. It is co-hosted by Rui Ma and Ying Lu, who are both seasoned China-watchers with years of experience working in the technology space in China. They share and discuss the most important tech news from China every week, and include commentary from investors, industry experts, and entrepreneurs.
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The Taylor Swift Approach to Building a Stronger Culture
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We're kicking off our month-long theme of 'best places to work,' and we don't shy away from discussing the nitty-gritty issues...such as employee retention, recruitment, and the overall sense of well-being among staff. What if the secret to creating a stellar workplace lies not only in creating a strong culture, but leaders understanding and addres…
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Workplace Well Being - Why It Matters - August 2023
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This month, Cynthia & Will share their culture insights about: Leadership acknowledging/ recognizing the importance of well being in the workplace Actions leaders can take to better understand well being C5 Dashboard mettics that help a coach and/ or leader understand well being and anxiety, next steps and feeback Articles referenced: Employee well…
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4 Factors That Impact Company Culture Podcast June 2023
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This month, Cynthia & Will share their culture insights on: Four Factors the Impact Company Culture Article Series where we highlight how leaders can address: -Anxiety in the Workplace -A Lack of Connectedness in Management/ Staff Roles -Acknowledging Staff Requested Needs & Behaviors (Continue, Stop, Start) -Communicating Specific Next Steps to Al…
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A New Hip & Reflections About a Strong & Healthy Culture at a Surgeon’s Office
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Welcome to the May Cultural Insights Podcast! Cynthia & Will share their cultural insights on: 1. Cynthia's recent hip surgery experience 2. How the culture and staff helped mitigate her anxiety and improve her well-being about the surgery 3. If she conducting a C5 Assessment with this particular medical group, what key indicators would she look fo…
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Understanding Bias: Its Impact on Communication & Feedback
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Welcome to the March Culture Works Podcast Cynthia & Will share their cultural insights on Bias: 1. How are we going to define it? Why is it causing a problem? What do we do about it? 2. Specific, Real-World Examples: Executive Coach Client Bias & Company Leader Communication Bias 3. Awareness, Understanding & Root Causes Review the case study: Cul…
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The Importance of Reading & Why Managers are Struggling February 2023
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Will & Cynthia discuss key highlights: -The importance of Reading and struggling to find time to consume critical cultural materials -How Flexibility Has Made Managers Miserabe article review & takeaways -Management & Leaders are lacking communication skills to effectively communicate in multiple workforce environments (virtual, hybrid, in-person) …
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Showcase Your Value with Organizational Culture November 2022
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In Novembers’s Podcast, Cynthia & Will discuss the: 1. Value of our Cultural Assessments to Coaches/ Consultants, Human Resources & Talent Development: 2. The Power of the metric dashboards, the ability to measure organizational Anxiety & the Action Plan Leadership behaviors 3. Value of Assessment to Leaders – Ah Ha moments & discovering unknowns a…
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Ep. 84: 2021 China Internet Report with SCMP CEO Gary Liu
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Episode 84 of Tech Buzz China features co-host Rui Ma in conversation with Gary Liu, CEO of the South China Morning Post on the hottest five trends shaping the China internet industry in 2021: tightening regulations, bumpy roads for IPOs, overseas expansion plans, shifting demographics, and growing private domain traffic. SCMP is a leading news med…
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Ep. 83: Acquired crossover — 2021 China tech trends
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The Acquired podcast puts out some of the very best business and technology content out there, and is one of our co-hosts’ favorite listens. Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal are inspirations, and so we’re always flattered to be referenced as the “Acquired of China tech”! We had a lot of fun recording this episode together. Here at Tech Buzz, we typi…
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Ep. 82: Q1 China ecommerce update with BigOne Lab
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One of Tech Buzz China’s partners is leading alternative data firm BigOne Lab, who is one of the best sources on detailed operational data for large Chinese tech companies. In Tech Buzz's quarterly update, BigOne's head of research, Robert Wu, joined Rui for a live webinar going over everything interesting among the big China ecommerce players, whi…
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Ep. 81: What it takes to win in China - Rui Ma with Karl Ulrich
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Episode 81 of Tech Buzz China continues our series of audio experiments, and features co-host Rui Ma in conversation with Wharton professor Karl Ulrich on his latest book, Winning in China. The book was co-authored with Wharton Global Fellow Lele Sang, and presents 8 carefully researched case studies of successes and failures, from Amazon to Sequoi…
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Ep. 80: Community (grocery) group buying: The next must-win market in China?
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In episode 80 of Tech Buzz China, Rui and Ying talk about community group buying 社区团购 shèqū tuángòu, or CGB, which is the hottest thing in China tech right now. In addition to startups raising crazy funds — one just raised $700 million — the internet giants have all gone in with guns blazing, and investors are bullish. Listen and follow along with …
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Ep. 79: Yatsen Group: Cosmetics ecommerce superstar and China’s L’Oreal for the digital age?
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In Episode 79 of Tech Buzz China, Rui and Ying talk about a company that aspires to be “China’s L’Oréal” for the digital age: Yatsen Group, owner of smash hit cosmetics app Perfect Diary (完美日记) among other brands. Though we at Tech Buzz have never directly covered the company, we have mentioned it, including in Episode 70 with Lauren Hallanan; as w…
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Ep. 78: China’s Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP) dreams
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Episode 78 of Tech Buzz China features our co-host Rui Ma in conversation with Yán Xiāo 肖妍 on the timely topic of China’s proposed national digital currency. Yan is a San Francisco-based Project Lead at the World Economic Forum with deep experience in fintech, having worked as senior legal counsel at Ant Group. She is also a lawyer by training and …
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Ep. 77: The next thing in China ecommerce? Consumer to manufacturer (C2M)
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In episode 77 of Tech Buzz China, co-hosts Rui Ma and Ying Lu tackle a topic that has become the next big thing in China ecommerce: C2M, or consumer to manufacturer. Although the acronym itself is not new, the term has been redefined within the past two years, driven by the choices of a handful of key founders and companies. Listen to learn about w…
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Ep. 76: Lufax IPO and the end of P2P lending in China
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In episode 76 of Tech Buzz China, co-hosts Rui Ma and Ying Lu take advantage of the recent Lufax IPO filing (Chinese name: 陆金所 lùjīnsuǒ) to talk about the P2P lending industry in China, which has been an oft-requested topic! We get into China’s (lack of) regulation of the nontraditional form of financing, drivers behind the industry’s quick boom an…
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Ep. 75: China ecommerce SaaS: Youzan, Weimob, and WeChat mini programs
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In episode 75 of Tech Buzz China, co-hosts Rui Ma and Ying Lu talk about China ecommerce SaaS (software as a service), which currently primarily refers to WeChat ecommerce as it takes place through mini programs. Listen to learn about major players Youzan and Weimob, the difference between public and private traffic, and what Alibaba’s and Tencent’…
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In episode 74 of Tech Buzz China, co-hosts Rui Ma and Ying Lu talk in depth about Ant Group, Alibaba’s financial affiliate, ahead of its upcoming mega-IPO. Media reports that the company — which already holds the record for “largest-ever single private fundraise” for its $14 billion raise in 2018 — seeks to raise $30 billion. That figure would inde…
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Ep. 73: KE Holdings: China’s second largest platform?
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In episode 73 of Tech Buzz China, co-hosts Rui Ma and Ying Lu return to the typical deep-dive format you’ve come to expect, with a timely look into recently listed real estate tech platform Beike 贝壳, or KE Holdings (BEKE). In addition to talking about the two-year-young company, we explore the realities of the Chinese real estate industry, which op…
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Ep. 72: What makes TikTok tick: A dialogue with Eugene Wei
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Episode 72 of Tech Buzz China features product expert Eugene Wei in conversation with our co-host Rui Ma on the timely topic of TikTok and the mechanics of what makes the app so successful. Tune in to learn why Rui calls TikTok an “algorithmic entertainment platform” and why Eugene terms TikTok’s algorithm the “Sorting Hat.” You’ll also learn why t…
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Ep. 71: Industry trends in China’s COVID-19 recovery, with Mu Chen
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Episode 71 of Tech Buzz China features Mu Chen in conversation with our co-hosts Ying Lu and Rui Ma, on the topic of digital and consumption trends in China. Mu is the founder and CEO of BigOne Lab (百观Lab), a data intelligence firm for investors. He discusses recent data and trends from key industries such as delivery, recruitment, logistics, trave…
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Ep. 70: Livestreaming ecommerce with Lauren Hallanan
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Episode 70 of Tech Buzz China features Lauren Hallanan in conversation with our co-hosts Ying Lu and Rui Ma on the topic of livestreaming ecommerce. In addition to being a former China-based livestreamer herself, with over 400,000 followers, Lauren is a fellow SupChina podcaster at the China Marketing Podcast. Go check it out! Today, Lauren gives a…
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Episode 69 of Tech Buzz China features our co-host Rui Ma in dialogue with Jeff Ding, a Rhodes Scholar and D.Phil Researcher at Oxford in the Future of Humanity Institute. He is also the creator of a free weekly newsletter called China AI. For his talk, Jeff focuses on artificial intelligence in China, specifically, some of the “unsexy” technical a…
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Ep. 68: Entertainment livestreaming outside of China with Shang Koo of M17.asia
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Episode 68 of Tech Buzz China features our co-host Rui Ma in dialogue with Shang Koo, the CFO of M17 Entertainment, or M17.asia, which is a livestreaming company popular in Taiwan and Japan. Listen to learn more about entertainment livestreaming and how the industry has developed throughout Asia. Shang goes into the dynamics of gifting, critiques o…
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Ep. 67: TikTok’s siblings: ByteDance’s other video apps
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In episode 67 of Tech Buzz China, hosts Rui Ma and Ying-Ying Lu discuss the ByteDance family of video apps outside of TikTok, including Xigua, Huoshan, and Pipixia. Most listeners know by now that ByteDance is very good at video, and these other apps provide noteworthy — though not comprehensive — examples of just how good it is. Listen to learn ab…
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Ep. 66: Beyond TikTok: Bytedance’s ambitions in gaming and education
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In episode 66 of Tech Buzz China, co-hosts Rui Ma and Ying-Ying Lu talk about Bytedance’s forays into gaming and education — moves that have been well covered and are eagerly anticipated by Chinese media. Notably, in multiple interviews, CEO Zhang Yiming says that he only wants to go into fields where he feels he is better than the incumbent. While…
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Ep. 65 (Extra Buzz Special): Luckin’s luck ran out
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Episode 65 of Tech Buzz China is a special one — a reading of the seventh issue of Extra Buzz, our new biweekly newsletter written by co-host Rui Ma. Listen (and read along) to follow Rui’s thoughts on the biggest story in China tech last week: the alleged fraud of China’s on-demand coffee company, Luckin Coffee 瑞幸咖啡. At its core, we at Tech Buzz b…
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Ep. 64: Telemedicine in China in the time of COVID-19: Part 2
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Episode 64 of Tech Buzz China is the second of two episodes on the Chinese telemedicine sector, which is closely watched in the wake of COVID-19. This week, on the heels of episode 63’s discussion of Ping An Good Doctor, co-hosts Rui Ma and Ying-Ying Lu talk about other experiments, such as Chunyu Yisheng 春雨医生, WeDoctor 好大夫, and Dingxiangyuan 丁香园. …
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Ep. 63: China telemedicine in the time of COVID-19: Part 1
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Episode 63 of Tech Buzz China is on the Chinese telemedicine sector, which has quickly evolved to become one of the most interesting businesses in China, especially in the wake of COVID-19. Co-hosts Rui Ma and Ying-Ying Lu focus on the underlying drivers within the complex healthcare industry. They cover topics such as the size of the Chinese healt…
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Ep. 62: Real pain for Chinese real estate startups
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Episode 62 of Tech Buzz China is on co-living and co-working, two of the formerly hottest — and now possibly coldest — sectors in China tech. Co-hosts Rui Ma and Ying-Ying Lu discuss how real estate startups have been hit hard by the coronavirus against a backdrop of how the real estate sector is big business in China. From rental startup companies…
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Ep. 61: Getting educated on China K-12 tutoring edtech
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Episode 61 of Tech Buzz China is on K-12 edtech entrepreneurs, who are seeing their businesses grow instead of shrink in the wake of the coronavirus. Co-hosts Rui Ma and Ying-Ying Lu discuss top trends and the key players before the virus hit, and how they are responding now. In 2018, the raging headline was that half of the venture capital deploye…
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Ep. 60: Wuhan Coronavirus: Impact on China Tech
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Episode 60 of Tech Buzz China is a special on the Wuhan coronavirus and its impact on China tech, as seen by co-hosts Rui Ma and Ying-Ying Lu. As we produce this episode, all of China is still pretty much on lockdown in response to the virus — it’s a transformative time. We talk about the impact on a range of sectors such as grocery ecommerce, remo…
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Episode 59 of Tech Buzz China takes a retrospective look at 2019 in China internet culture and business happenings. Co-hosts Rui Ma and Ying-Ying Lu review their top picks of the need-to-know trends, occurrences, and players that shaped the landscape in 2019. From the saturation of Chinese mobile internet users to the rise of the rural consumer and…
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Ep. 58: China grocery ecommerce: Bloodbath or gold mine?
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In Episode 58 of TechBuzz China, our first episode of the new decade, co-hosts Rui Ma and Ying-Ying Lu talk about grocery ecommerce, or buying fresh food over the internet. The sector, which in China is sometimes taken to include “new retail” concepts such as Alibaba’s Hema, is seen as one of the few remaining “blue ocean” ecommerce opportunities i…
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Here at TechBuzz, we have been busy preparing for our second Investor Trip for March 2–6, 2020. If you are a full-time investor with at least 10 years of experience, consider applying for the trip by writing to us at rui@pandaily.com. During our inaugural Investor Trip in October, Bilibili was one of the companies we visited, and it turned out to b…
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Ep. 56: Not just TikTok: A short history of Chinese short video abroad
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Episode 56 of TechBuzz China is all about short video, which our co-hosts comment should by now be considered one of China’s “New Four Great Inventions.” It’s sweeping the world, and has become an arena in which Chinese companies’ battle for users and revenue is extending abroad. Most of our listeners will have heard of Bytedance’s product TikTok, …
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Ep. 55: Kuaishou: The Anti-Douyin/TikTok?
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Episode 55 of TechBuzz China is about a company we have admittedly relegated to a “supporting role” thus far here on TechBuzz: Kuaishou, which is rightfully known as the original Chinese short-video app. Rui and Ying-Ying explain that while Bytedance and its Douyin and TikTok products seem to be clear stars today, that trend was not always obvious.…
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Ep. 54: Influencers, KOLs, idols, and the future of China ecommerce
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TechBuzz China is back from China! We are happy to say that the week of back-to-back meetings we had in our first-ever Investor Trip was a great success. We were able to visit a host of companies we’ve previously covered on the podcast, like Ximalaya, Xiaohongshu, Ruhan, Xiaomi, China Renaissance, Tiger Brokers, and more, as well as new ones such a…
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Ep. 53: NetEase — Developing Pigs, Games, and People
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TechBuzz China is going to China! As part of our inaugural invite-only TechBuzz China Investor Trip for public market investors taking place right after Golden Week, we will be hosting a live meetup in Beijing’s Sanlitun at Taco Bar on Tuesday, October 8, and in Shanghai at Hotel Indigo on Thursday, October 10. Both will begin at 8:30 p.m. If you a…
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Ep. 52: Zhihu and Kuaishou — Has China’s Quora Found Its Prince Charming?
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TechBuzz China is going to China! As part of our inaugural invite-only TechBuzz China Investor Trip for public market investors taking place right after Golden Week, we will be hosting live meetups. These will take place in Beijing’s Sanlitun after dinner on Tuesday, October 8, and in Shanghai after dinner on Thursday, October 10. If you are in eit…
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Ep. 51: Overview of China Tech: Rui Ma on SupChina Access
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Episode 51 of TechBuzz China is our second consecutive show that is in a unique format. It features a replay of TechBuzz co-host Rui Ma’s recorded call on SupChina Access, which was originally aired live on July 23. The conversation is moderated by Jeremy Goldkorn, editor-in-chief of SupChina. As longtime listeners know, we are proudly one of the m…
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Ep. 50: TechBuzz Live: The Transpacific Experiment: How China and California Collaborate and Compete for Our Future
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Episode 50 of TechBuzz China is unique: it’s our first live recording! It features co-host Rui Ma in conversation with author and journalist Matt Sheehan, currently a fellow based at the Paulson Institute’s MacroPolo think tank. It was recorded at the August 13 launch of Matt’s new book, The Transpacific Experiment: How China and California Collabo…
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Ep. 49: China’s Gen-Z and its newest poison: sneakers
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In episode 49 of TechBuzz China, co-hosts Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma continue their exploration of the converging trends between the U.S. and China’s ecommerce sectors, this week covering the topic of the resale market for sneakers and streetwear. Notably, entrepreneurs in the U.S. and in China, such as the founders of smash-hit sneaker site Pozion, s…
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Ep. 48: Three Squirrels: The Nutty World of Chinese D2C Brands
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In episode 48 of TechBuzz China, co-hosts Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma take a look at the direct-to-consumer, or D2C, brands in China. Specifically, they highlight one of the early winners of the business model: Three Squirrels, a Chinese internet snack brand that started off with selling nuts and went public on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange last week wit…
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