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• The process is the key to getting a lot of things done
• My mission is to save the world
• Shut up and do something
• Problems are real in China 
• If you can make the entire market smarter you are going to get a much larger pie that you can all work off of

Driven by the belief that change begins with a single step, Richard Brubaker has spent the last 20 years in Asia working to engage, inspire and equip those around him to take their first step.

Currently, as the Managing Director of Collective Responsibility, Executive Volunteer of HandsOn China, and an Adjunct Professor of Sustainability and Social Innovation at Southern Methodist University, Richard is focused on building platforms that promote long term organizational capacity to address the economic, environmental and social hurdles that China faces as the country’s economic growth accelerates.

🚗 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.

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• People looked at the website and they didn't know what to do with this
• I burned out before the industry burned out
• Communication is very important for sales
• Interner consultants are bad programmers that are just good at talking 
• Automation in the small and medium-size factories is what's gonna happen next

Rasmus Rasmusson is an experienced entrepreneur and product developer with 20+ years in the IT industry. Currently, he is developing two companies: an IoT engineering company VÄRM focusing on cooking automation, and a cofactory company called LeWorks.

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• Asia countries are more competitive, people work much later hours
• Fung Group has one of the best connections with academia
• It is crazy how many business leaders do not even know what their customers want
• Gaming is a hard industry
• Manufacturing is always the toughest part
• We were on the chain working literally with factory workers

Eddie Tsai is focused on designing and launching innovative products and experiences that are compelling for the masses. Eddie earned his MBA from INSEAD in Paris and Singapore where he was President of the INSEAD Entrepreneurship Club. He earned his BA in International Studies with a minor in Management and Digital Art from the University of California, Irvine. Additionally, he spent a year as an exchange student at the National University of Singapore focused on Asia Business.

Having lived, worked, and studied in America, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, and Singapore, his international experience provides him a unique perspective on business problems. He continues to stretch his boundaries by exploring new technologies and thinking deeply about implementing new business models and offerings.

In 2018, Eddie co-founded a startup Human Things to focus on launching fun projects on crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter. Their first project became the 4th most funded gaming hardware project behind Oculus Rift and Ouya and raised over $1M in pre-orders last year.

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• I saw a huge opportunity for 3D real-time technology
• The markets are already stable, it is hard to innovate and penetrate 
• In 2017 over 50% of smart cities were developed in China
• Only China and Saudi Arabia are the two countries that are starting cities from nothing
• A digital twin is a digital representation of a physical world
• Manufacturing and smart city are the pioneers of digital twins
• Carbon neutrality is a huge topic
• How can you fix something you do not know about
• In China governments and businesses are more open to new technologies

Eric Liu has over 16 years of cutting-edge technology experience focused on 3D visualization and human-computer interactive technologies, including Virtual and Augmented Reality. During his tenure at NVIDIA in Silicon Valley, he worked with the world’s largest hardware and video game developers to define the future of computer graphics and GPU technologies. In 2015, Eric moved to Shanghai and saw the need for advancing digital twins in the smart city and smart manufacturing industries. Today, DIGITWIN Technologies is at the forefront of the spatial computing revolution.

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• I had to leave a keyboard and go out to look for investment, people, and resources
• I was a pure tech nerd
• Security is the biggest challenge
• If we keep going like this we will be shut down again
• Picking the right co-founder is really really important
• In the future, digital assets will be more and more important
• Video production will be booming

13 years of experience with anything you can throw at software development. Grew up building back-end solutions and solving data issues or any other issues you can think of, mainly focus on backend solutions (Java, Python, and more), IOS development including native (Swift, Objc) and html5 app, also focused on architecture and design patterns aiming at writing better quality codes. Experienced in security, data transaction strategy as well as refactoring.

Right now Chen Zhang is the CEO of CowTransfer cowtransfer.com, it was founded in 2018, and it is the most efficient way to share large files online.

A series of video interviews where we talk about innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship in China. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and corporate innovators. This podcast is brought to you by weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth helping local and international teams succeed in China.

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• Real Estate developers were changing rapidly because they are all in such pain, that they would cut the entire executive board
• Deals with NetEase and Formula One were both signed during the coronavirus outbreak
• I see it as the future of spaces, especially new retail
• In China copies come really quick you gotta move fast
• We are in that value chain to supply people that want to copy us

Eric Oetting, founder and CEO of Planet O is a seasoned serial entrepreneur and market entry expert with futuristic insights into the next generation of eSports and location-based entertainment. Since first coming to China in 2005, Eric has been focused on the high-growth sector of China’s consumer-based industries.

Founded in 2016, Planet O is a pioneering new-age entertainment company dedicated to location-based entertainment, high tech eSports, and XR experiences. The flagship hub – PLANET ONE, a joint-venture between Planet O and NetEase Games VR, was opened in Shanghai on June 5th, with plans for continued expansion across China.

 A series of video interviews where we talk about innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship in China. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and corporate innovators. This podcast is brought to you by weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth helping local and international teams succeed in China.

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• It takes about two years to transition from a corporate person to an entrepreneur.
•  Too much money was put on bureaucratic things which are unnecessary for an early-stage project. 
•  I need culture shock.
•  I witnessed how 30 million got burned for nothing. 
•  No payment option was a stopper. 
•  If you go to a new city and you know nobody you just say you are an entrepreneur. 
•  Step out of a foreigner's zone to tackle the China market. 
•  You need to "hunt and date" for a local partner.

Yuchen Zhang has a solid background in engineering and software from three universities and vast entrepreneurial experience both in China and abroad. YC is running aihehuo.com which is a platform for wanna-be-entrepreneurs to meet and "date". To help even more future entrepreneurs, YC leads the Startup Leadership Program SLP Shanghai chapter. 

 A series of video interviews where we talk about innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship in China. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and corporate innovators. This podcast is brought to you by weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth helping local and international teams succeed in China.

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💡 Put a phone away.

💡 China is a fairly friendly place for foreigners as long as you are not doing things that the government does not want you to do.

💡 China is a super interesting market because over the past 30 years they built up this incredible asset base - the factory of the world.

💡 Technology adoption is a big issue.

Erik Walenza-Slabe is a long-term resident of Shanghai where he runs IoT One focusing on the Industrial Internet of Things and helping companies in developing their digital transformation. In addition to working with big corporations, Erik has been helping startups by running the Startup Grind Shanghai chapter since 2012. 

🚗 A series of video interviews where we talk about innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship in China. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and corporate innovators. This podcast is brought to you by weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth helping local and international teams succeed in China.

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💡 China is undergoing huge growth. Exponential opportunities are very attractive to young professionals.
💡 In the US, you work at a job in a high-pressure environment, you deliver, and a lot of your passion you build outside of your job. In China, it's a creation of things like WeChat, where it totally blurs personal and professional lines.
💡 We train and invest in people, not the ideas.
💡 Innovation never yields quick results.
💡 The Chinese corporations' challenge is to change some of the people's mindsets to be able to take more risks.

Got educated in China, the USA, and the UK, Jade Hsiao started her career in New York City. But after a couple of years, Jade moved to China, where her passion for food led her to join Danone. Currently, as acceleration manager at XNode, Jade invests her time and efforts to drive innovation for big corporations.

🚗  This series of interviews brought to you by weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth helping local and international teams succeed in China.

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• In China, you can get anything done in no time.
• If you cannot resource a team of champions within a corporation, then the relationships with startups are superficial.
• The number one KPI is the incremental revenue we drive for Intel.

Graduated from Stanford, worked alongside incredibly talented people on designing multiple generations of Apple products, Kapil Kane, a co-founder of Intel® GrowthX corporate accelerator, is now spearheading innovation for Intel in China.

Learn more about Intel GrowthX corporate accelerator, how they help startups, what programs they run, and how they make the change happen.

In China Between Meetings is a series of interviews about innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship brought to you by weHustle.

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