Greg is the founder of Pillar Legal, a boutique international law firm across Shanghai and San Francisco that specializes in the video game industry. Before founding his own law firm, Greg served as General Counsel for Shanda (盛大网络), which was the largest Chinese gaming company at one point […]
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Liqian Ren 任丽倩, Ph.D., is the Director of Modern Alpha at WisdomTree Investments where she manages, among other things, an ETF focused on non-state owned companies in China using quantitative strategies. She was a quantitative portfolio manager at Vanguard for 11 years, worked for the Federal Reserve Bank […]
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 […]
Recorded live Feb. 10, 2021. Q&A with Jack Yujie Yang who led the growth of Mobike (acq. $2.8Bn) as VP of Growth & Product and Chief Growth Officer of MissFresh, ($3Bn+ grocery delivery unicorn). He is now working on his own e-commerce startup. We talk about: Specific growth […]
Recorded March 9, 2021 on Clubhouse as part of the Inside Asia Club. 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 […]
Raymond Huang was most recently the Chief Strategy Officer of MOGU (蘑菇街), a publicly listed Chinese eCommerce company, and the FIRST one to launch livestreaming eCommerce or live shopping in China, which accounted for an estimated $150Bn USD in GMV last year. He used to be an investment […]
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 […]
William Li is the CEO of Akulaku, the largest consumer finance company in Indonesia, and a very fast-growing digital bank. Akulaku is a Southeast Asian tech company that has both Chinese and Southeast Asian management, and investors from China. William used to work in the legal and financing […]
Rui: Richard, thanks for being here. Could you give us an introduction about yourself? Richard: So first of all, it’s my great pleasure to be here today. Currently, I am doing cross-border investments in Silicon Valley, and I come from a fund called Grandview Capital. So our firm […]
Transcript compiled by Karrie Huang. Rui: Albus, tell us more about China Growth Capital and also yourself. What does the fund do? What’s the size? What’s your strategy? Albus: Thanks, Rui. Hi, I’m Albus and I work for China Growth Capital. We are early-stage venture capital funds. We’re […]
Transcript compiled by Karrie Huang. Rui: Hey everyone. Thanks for joining us. We have Ray in the room right now. Ray, first of all, thank you for being here today. The way we’re going to do this is so for the Tech Buzz insider community, you’re able to […]
Jordan Berke spent fifteen years transforming the world’s largest retailer into a truly digital organization by leading strategic alliances with JD 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 […]
Recorded Jan. 23, 2021 with Dan Grover on WeChat 8.0 and their big push into WeChat Channels.