Takeaways:

• As I got older I just did not feel I could have the impact that I wanted to have
• We sweat and we connect
• As a generation, we are moving less than ever before
• Make movement a fundamental human right
• Movement is medicine
• If you don’t have guanxi and you are not working with local bureaus and local governments you gonna hit a wall of resistance that I don’t think you can get passed
• External accountability: do not go alone!

Born and raised in California, Cory Arth is an APTA American Board-Certified Doctor of Physical Therapy. Cory has worked in team sports settings around the world including China, Qatar, and Brazil, and also worked with athletes participating in the Olympics, NBA, MLB, NFL,  and additional professional leagues and competitions globally.

Between Meetings is a series of on-the-go interviews in which we discuss innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and corporate innovators. We catch them between meetings. In a car ride across town, they share inspiring stories, personal experiences, industry insights, and practical advice on how to scale your way to success.

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Takeaways:

• East and West work cultures are very much built on relationship
• In Hong Kong, the teams work around the clock
• We have been training these models with historical data, data that created a lot of social disparity and biases, and inherited inequality
• ESG becomes a little bit more of a marketing conversation and branding
• The real work comes after you know what your North Star is
• I hope more people can see the long-term impact on their decision-making process
• If you are not tested you do not know your potential

Ellen Wu has a proven track record of solving complex business challenges with innovative technology strategies. A strong passion for advancing sustainability, ethical AI, diversity, and leadership.

Between Meetings is a series of on-the-go interviews in which we discuss innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and corporate innovators. We catch them between meetings. In a car ride across town, they share inspiring stories, personal experiences, industry insights, and practical advice on how to scale your way to success.

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Takeaways:

• Quite a fair amount of international insurance companies are not making much money in China
• We are counting on the high-net-worth local population eventually will get insured
• Healthcare cost is really expensive in Shanghai
• Local players put a lot of effort into digitalization
• Insurance is still a very traditional industry
• People are looking for more globally portable solutions
• Teleconsultation and AI Underwriting are disrupting the industry

Jonathan Chapon is an experienced General Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the insurance industry internationally. Skilled in business development, negotiation, business planning, and management.

Between Meetings is a series of on-the-go interviews in which we discuss innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and corporate innovators. We catch them between meetings. In a car ride across town, they share inspiring stories, personal experiences, industry insights, and practical advice on how to scale your way to success.

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Takeaways:

• Group classes are on the rise
• Localization is key to the success of the American tech company in China
• More boutique studios with professional couches coming in 
• In China, there is still a very low penetration rate for the fitness industry 
• Traditional big open-space gyms are struggling with their current business models focusing only on long-term membership
• ClassPass in 30 countries, but only in China ClassPass operates in a different way
• At ClassPass the management saw the China team as an experimental project

Simon Wang is a senior executive with diversified industry experiences. He has plenty of experience leading the business, design, and product teams in both multinational and local enterprises with outstanding achievements.

With his computer science background, he has always been committed to using technological innovation to break through industrial barriers and optimize the user experience.

Between Meetings is a series of on-the-go interviews in which we discuss innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and corporate innovators. We catch them between meetings. In a car ride across town, they share inspiring stories, personal experiences, industry insights, and practical advice on how to scale your way to success.

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Takeaways:

• Part of the formula to scale innovations is working with key people 
• Asia’s biggest advantage is a huge blank slate
• You can think of blockchain as an infrastructure of infrastructures 
• We live in very unique times, the most disruptive, interesting, impactful moments in the history of humanity 
• 10 years of fintech road happened in the space of a year in change over COVID

Prof. Michael Sung is a technology venture builder and investor, having founded various companies in diverse high-tech industries ranging from AI, blockchain, semiconductor, and new materials industries. Prof. Sung is Chairman/CEO of FreeFlow Finance, a cross-border payments company focused on regulated digital currency interoperability and FX infrastructure solutions for financial institutions. He has a strong background in cross-border technology transfer, strategic industry engagement, commercialisation strategy, business model innovation, and hi-tech entrepreneurship.

Between Meetings is a series of on-the-go interviews in which we discuss innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and corporate innovators. We catch them between meetings. In a car ride across town, they share inspiring stories, personal experiences, industry insights, and practical advice on how to scale your way to success.

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Takeaways

• Looking at the economic situation, the speed, and the drive that China had, all I could see was an opportunity 
• Our focus is on creating great client experience and understanding this fast-changing market
• We work with Western brands to identify how they can stay true to the core and at the same time be sensitive to the local market
• Our job is to absorb the differences and to facilitate productive collaboration and cooperation.
• We have to be intentional about collaboration, intentional about diversity. 

Ferdinand Klauser is an international brand strategy and marketing consultant serving clients in automotive, sports performance, and lifestyle products. He is passionate about collaborating with KISKA’s multidisciplinary teams to deliver relevant experiences that move people, shape brands, and create impact.

Between Meetings is a series of on-the-go interviews in which we discuss innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and corporate innovators. We catch them between meetings. In a car ride across town, they share inspiring stories, personal experiences, industry insights, and practical advice on how to scale your way to success.

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Takeaways:

💡 Through technology you can create little tools to enhance a creative expression. 

💡 I am not educated to educate other people. 

💡 When you are a retailer you grow either by acquiring new customers or by making existing customers more profitable. And those two things are becoming harder to do for home furniture. 

💡 Everything that surrounds us has the opportunity to be better. 

💡 Here you are able to launch things that may not be hyper polished. But you can launch them in a spirit of learning.

Momo Estrella is an advocate for human-centered design, change agency, and neurodiversity inclusion.

🚗 In China Between Meetings is a series of on-the-go interviews in which we discuss innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship at the speed of China. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and corporate innovators. We catch them between meetings. In a car ride across town, they share inspiring stores, personal experiences, industry insights, and practical advice on how to scale your way to success in China and beyond. 

This podcast is brought to you by the team of weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth, dedicated to supporting local and international teams as they navigate China’s dynamic business landscape. In partnership with Startups Gear which connects startups to growth opportunities in just one click.

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Other activities:

Founders Breakfast

Weekly meetup connecting startups & founders to the entrepreneurial ecosystem via expert talks & trustful connections.

Startups Gear

We connect startups to growth opportunities in just one click.

TECOM

China's first international technology and innovation conference.

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Takeaways:

💡 Carve your own path

💡 Languages shaped my passion to go and explore different places

💡 In the last few years, innovation has had to lean and point almost directly towards China

💡 Innovation moved from something that was on the edge, things people thought about as something new and different, it moved into the center where everybody should be thinking about innovation

💡 Innovation is a way of thinking

💡 Innovation is a muscle

Anthony Leung, ?What If! Innovation Greater China Lead & Accenture Managing Director.

Anthony is an expert in utilizing consumer understanding, cultural context, trends, and creativity to uncover insight generation, and develop breakthrough innovation and brand positioning for start-ups, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies in a range of industries, including technology, advertising, healthcare, retail, and events/entertainment.

🚗 In China Between Meetings is a series of on-the-go interviews in which we discuss innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship at the speed of China. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and corporate innovators. We catch them between meetings. In a car ride across town, they share inspiring stores, personal experiences, industry insights, and practical advice on how to scale your way to success in China and beyond. 

This podcast is brought to you by the team of weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth, dedicated to supporting local and international teams as they navigate China’s dynamic business landscape. In partnership with Startups Gear which connects startups to growth opportunities in just one click.

Follow the host Marian Danko on LinkedIn.

Please follow our Linkedin page

Other activities:

Founders Breakfast

Weekly meetup connecting startups & founders to the entrepreneurial ecosystem via expert talks & trustful connections.

Startups Gear

We connect startups to growth opportunities in just one click.

TECOM

China's first international technology and innovation conference.

Subscribe to the podcast via other services to be notified when a new episode is released. We are on WeChat Channel, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio,

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Takeaways:

💡 Every day we change forever

💡 Working for corporates teaches you processes, how to work with big teams, how to allocate resources

💡 You cannot check for understanding when you share training or communication piece 

💡 We find it difficult to convince Chinese companies that we are a better service provider than domestic companies 

💡 We see a lot of localization in recent years in China

💡 A lot of our multinational clients bring us outside of China

Matt Spriegel's lifelong dream is to bring education and resources to the most remote regions in the world. 

Atiom's vision is to transform workplaces into agile, engaging, and uplifting communities with both people and the planet in mind. 

🚗 In China Between Meetings is a series of on-the-go interviews in which we discuss innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship at the speed of China. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and corporate innovators. We catch them between meetings. In a car ride across town, they share inspiring stores, personal experiences, industry insights, and practical advice on how to scale your way to success in China and beyond. 

This podcast is brought to you by the team of weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth, dedicated to supporting local and international teams as they navigate China’s dynamic business landscape. In partnership with Startups Gear which connects startups to growth opportunities in just one click.

Follow the host Marian Danko on LinkedIn.

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Takeaways:

• Metaverse allows more fluidity for economic class
• 5% of your customers generate 80-90% of your profitability
• The right timing is key to success
• I‘ve been lucky throughout my career that people have trusted me to execute and to be able to think independently 
• Entrepreneurship is tough
• All the things that we have been seeing in sci-fi movies are going to be a part of our real world soon
• I learned more in that year and a half than I did at all my courses at MIT
• You need to be very careful looking at your legal documents
• We did all the mistakes you could do as a venture-backed entrepreneur

Mr. Graylin （汪丛青） is the China President at HTC leading all aspects of HTC's business in the region (Vive/VR, phone, Viveport content platform, partnerships and investments) and the company’s XR Suite Business globally. He is also currently Vice-Chairman of the Industry of Virtual Reality Alliance (IVRA.com) with 300+ company members, President of the $18B Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance (VRVCA.com) and oversees the Vive X VR Accelerators (VIVEX.co) in Beijing, Shenzhen and Tel Aviv. Mr. Graylin is a sought-after speaker and thought leader in the areas of VR/AR, AI, Entrepreneurship, and doing business in China by events and media globally.

🚗 In China Between Meetings is a series of on-the-go interviews in which we discuss innovation, technology and entrepreneurship at the speed of China. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs and corporate innovators. We catch them between meetings. In a car ride across town, they share inspiring stores, personal experiences, industry insights and practical advice on how to scale your way to success in China and beyond. 

This podcast is brought to you by the team of weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth, dedicated to supporting local and international teams as they navigate China’s dynamic business landscape. Supported by Startups Gear, a one-click application tool for startups, and TECOM Conf, China's first tech and entrepreneur communities conference.

Follow the host Marian Danko on LinkedIn.

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Subscribe to the podcast via other services to be notified when a new episode is released. We are on WeChat Channel, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, TuneIn + Alexa and more.

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