Podcast & Transcript

Transcript (Y: Ying-Ying Lu; R: Rui Ma ) [00:00] R: So October 1st marked the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, AKA mainland China, and also brings with it a weeklong holiday, usually referred to as Golden Week. For our listeners in China, we hope you’re enjoying […]

Transcript (Y: Ying-Ying Lu; R: Rui Ma ) [00:00] Y: Hey guys! Welcome back to the show. It’s been a few weeks since we’ve done our regular format that you’ve come to love, but that’s because we were busy planning our upcoming invite-only investor trip to China, where we are taking some […]

Transcript (Y: Ying-Ying Lu; R: Rui Ma) [00:00] Y: Hey everyone. Happy August. It’s not exactly slow news month in China. We have a few interesting stories queued up. But it’s vacation time in San Francisco, so the both of us are doing some travelling. That’s why we thought it would […]

Transcript (Y: Ying-Ying Lu; R: Rui Ma; M: Matthew Sheehan) [00:00] Y: Today’s episode is a unique one, because it’s in a bit of a different format from what we usually do: it was recorded live. August 13th, this past Tuesday, was the official release date of a book by our […]

Transcript [00:00] R: Hey everyone, I hope you enjoyed our last episode on 3 Squirrels, which showcased one of China’s largest snack brands.  And it was unique in that the brand was built entirely online, although like other digital brands globally, it’s experimenting with and expanding its offline presence. Y: We called it a […]

Transcript [00:00] R: Hey everyone! It’s been a few weeks since we last recorded, but no worries, we are still very much alive and busy, and are working on not one, but two experimental episodes for you in the upcoming few weeks. Meanwhile though, today we have something in the traditional format, where we’re […]

Transcript (Y: Ying-Ying Lu; R: Rui Ma) [00:00] Y: Like some of our other recent episodes, this one has been on the back burner for a while. We first wanted to cover Chinese edtech when cross-border unicorn VIPKid raised its last confirmed round of $500mm from heavyweights such as Coatue and Tencent in April […]

Transcript (Y: Ying-Ying Lu; R: Rui Ma) [0:00] R: In March of this year, two Chinese fintech unicorn startups went IPO in quick succession. One was 富途 Futu, which can be translated as the “path to riches,” and the other was Tiger Brokers. Y: Both are online brokerages that help Chinese people invest […]

Transcript (Y: Ying-Ying Lu; R: Rui Ma) [0:00] R: Before we start, just want to thank those TechBuzz fans who came up and introduced yourselves Monday at the SupChina Women’s Conference in New York City. It is always such a pleasure to meet listeners in person! Especially women business leaders. Y: Congratulations to […]

Transcript (Y: Ying-Ying Lu; R: Rui Ma) [00:00] R: Last week, So-Young International, that’s so-dash-young in case you had trouble finding the filing like I did, went IPO on the NASDAQ, raising over $166mm. Y: So-Young, whose Chinese name is 新氧, or New Oxygen, has a mission to bring “health and beauty” to everyone, as “the most […]

Transcript (Y: Ying-Ying Lu; R: Rui Ma) [00:00] Y: This week, China’s interwebs were dominated by the news of leaked video footage of JD.com CEO Richard Liu’s encounters with the woman accusing him of raping her. R: That and Luckin Coffee’s filing for IPO on the NASDAQ. Y: That was pretty surprising, actually, given […]

Transcript (Y: Ying-Ying Lu; R: Rui Ma; A: Arman Zand) [00:00] R: Last year, the famed Silicon Valley venture capitalist Michael Moritz wrote an opinion piece for the Financial Times titled “Silicon Valley would be wise to follow China’s Lead.”  What lead, you say? Well, he was referring to the punishing work […]

Transcript (Y: Ying-Ying Lu; R: Rui Ma; L: Lauren Hallanan) [00:00] Y: Hey Techbuzzers! It was great seeing some of you at SXSW in Austin earlier this month. We hope you enjoyed our provocatively titled panel — Entrepreneurship in China: Will They Eat Your Lunch? — which was hosted by our very own producer, Kaiser Kuo. […]

Transcript (Y: Ying-Ying Lu; R: Rui Ma;) [00:00] R: Today’s episode is on the new “Technology Innovation Board” to be set on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, which has been in the works since last November after a big announcement by none other than President Xi himself, but which just formally announced its first set […]

Transcript (Y: Ying-Ying Lu; R: Rui Ma;) [00:00] R: OK, Techbuzzers, if you have been paying attention, you can probably guess the two recent pieces of news — one about an acquisition, and the other, about a funding event, both here in the US, by the way — that we here at […]