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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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Daily headline tech news in China that you cannot miss. Brought to you by Pandaily, an English-language site that tells you everything about China's innovation. Caiwei Chen is the host and executive producer of the show. Hazel Tang is the other producer. Our talented team at Pandaily also contribute to the content on a regular basis. For more information, check out www.pandaily.com and find us @thepandaily on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram. If have any suggestions or business inqu ...
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Pandaily.com是一家向世界科技社区介绍中国创新的英文媒体,而TechBuzz China则是其旗下向硅谷介绍中国创新的英文播客。 TechBuzz China is a weekly technology podcast powered by Pandaily.com that talks all about China’s Innovation, co-hosted by Rui Ma who is an angel investor and entrepreneur, and Ying-Ying Lu who is also an entrepreneur. The two hosts are both China experts who lived and worked in the technology space in China for many years.
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Livecast #14: Richard Turrin on China's Digital Yuan
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Richard (Rich) Turrin is the international best-selling author of “Cashless - China’s Digital Currency Revolution” and “Innovation Lab Excellence.” He is an Onalytica Top 100 Fintech Influencer and an award-winning executive previously heading fintech teams at IBM following a twenty-year career in investment banking. Living in Shanghai for the last…
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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. 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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Livecast #12: Andy Tian, Copy from China, Exporting Live Social Apps Globally
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Andy Tian is the founder of Asia innovations group, a company that has a suite of live social apps, e.g. Uplive, Lamour, SupreFans with more than 410 million registered users located in over 150 countries and regions worldwide. Andy has strong opinions about what's the best way to take the most interesting things he has seen in China and throughout…
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Livecast #10: Richard Xu Investing in Chinese Entrepreneurs Going Overseas
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Richard is the co-founder of Grandview Capital, a VC fund focused on investing in Chinese entrepreneurs who do business outside of China (AKA go overseas or "chuhai" in Chinese). He's based in Silicon Valley and his co-founder is in China. Hear Richard explain: Why he started to look at Chinese entrepreneurs who are attacking overseas markets back …
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Livecast #8: Ray Hu of Blue Lake Capital on China SaaS
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Ray Hu is the founder of Blue Lake Capital, an early stage VC fund in China with about $700mm under management. Blue Lake specializes in SaaS investments. Hear Ray explain: The current state of Chinese SaaS, enabling factors and requirements for success Case study: Jushuitan (JST), an ecommerce SaaS and their sales strategy Enterprises' willingness…
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Livecast #9: Albus Yu of China Growth Capital on China DTCs
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Albus Yu works for China Growth Capital, a venture capital fund that manages about 1.4 billion dollars. He specializes in consumer internet, consumer brands, and services investment. Hear Albus explain: The reason that he had started to invest in consumer internet and e-commerce marketplaces; What the growth of DTC brands in China looks like these …
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Livecast #6: Ron Cao, A 20 Year China VC on Semis, SPACs and Blockchain
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Recorded March 9, 2021. Ron Cao has spent 20 years as a venture capitalist in China. He first went there during the 90s when semiconductor investing was a thing, but then found himself investing in consumer internet startups such as ByteDance and Pinduoduo because that sector yielded the greatest return, and is now finding himself investing in semi…
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Livecast #4: Deep Dive into Agora $API with Kevin Xu of Interconnected.blog
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Recorded Thursday 2/10/21. Kevin, now at Github, is the founder of interconnected.blog, a bilingual newsletter on the intersections of tech, business, money, geopolitics, and US-Asia relations. We go over: What is Agora? It's a platform as a service company. The origin story of Tony Zhao the CEO who was previously at WebEx & then CTO at YY, where h…
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Livecast #7: Jordan Berke, former Walmart China Head of E-Commerce
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Jordan Berke spent fifteen years transforming the world's largest retailer into a truly digital organization by leading strategic alliances with JinDong and Tencent. He's now the founder of Tomorrow Retail, a consulting company. Hear about: How does Walmart China outstrip the US in four major categories? What are retailers in the U.S. focusing on r…
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Livecast #5: Boyu Hu of XVC: Early Kuaishou Investor
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Early on in VC, Boyu Hu was at DCM China and worked on the Kuaishou deal. Now he has his own fund XVC, managing $600mm, focusing on consumer internet. I asked what's changed in the last ten years and: Why's he continuing to invest in consumer internet? Is rural China where it's at? Are the big platforms more important? Are the big funds more import…
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Livecast #3: Growing 2 Unicorns at China Speed with Jack Yang
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Recorded live Feb. 10, 2021. Q&A with Jack Yujie Yang who led the growth of Mobike, China's leading bikesharing company (acquired by Meituan for $2.7Bn in 2018) as VP of Growth & Product. He grew the company from 4 to over 200 cities, ~500k to over 30 million trips per day. He then joined MissFresh, one of China's grocery delivery unicorns ($3Bn+ v…
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Livecast 2: The Business of Cybersecurity in China with Ed Tsai, ex-QiAnXin
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Recorded Feb. 5, 2021. On this livecast, we chat with seasoned investor Ed Tsai on the business of cybersecurity in China. Here are the main points: Ed's self introduction of how he ended up in China and some background on his most recent employer, QiAnXin, the largest pureplay cybersecurity company in China, a $15Bn market cap company that is at a…
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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 E-commerce 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. 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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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. Co-authored with Wharton Global Fellow Lele Sang, it presents eight carefully researched case studies of business successes and failures, from Amazon to Sequoia…
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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 eight carefully researched case studies of successes and failures, from Amazon to Se…
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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. 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. 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: 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. 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. 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 substantial experience in fintech, having worked as senior legal counsel at Ant Group. She is also a lawyer by traini…
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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 substantial experience in fintech, having worked as senior legal counsel at Ant Group. She is also a lawyer by traini…
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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. 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. 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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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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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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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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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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Xiaomi Market Value Reaches HK$600 Billion, Share Price Soars 6%
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News Briefing for 09/04/2020. The total market value for Xiaomi, Chinese smartphone and smart hardware manufacturer, reached HK$600 billion for the first time. And Xiaomi is also seeing huge progress in the European market, according to its CEO Lei Jun. Meanwhile at home, Tsinghua University ranked 20th in this year’s Times Higher Education World U…
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Alibaba Increases its Stake in YTO Express by 12%; Didi Chuxing Upgrades Taxi Service Unit
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News Briefing for Sept. 2. Alibaba and YTO Express reached a strategic cooperation deal; Didi Chuxing upgraded its taxi business with Kuaidi for better taxi-hailing service. Meanwhile, Netflix just announced its plan to adapt the Chinese Sci-fi trilogy, the Three-Body Problem, with fans around the world excited about the announcement.…
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ByteDance’s US Sale Possibly Suspended Under China’s Revised Export Restrictions
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News Briefing for August 31. TikTok assets may not be sold under the new restrictions revised by China’s authorities, as the regulations require governmental approval on technology exports. The regulations post new threats for TikTok in the US as the Trump administration set a deadline for September 15 to sell or ban its service in the US. In today…
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