China Tech Talk

This week, Matt and John discuss the top 5 trends (plus some honorable mentions) in China's tech for 2017. This is the first of two parts.

This week, we hear from BingoBox and Xiaomi about their products, market strategy, and the future of their verticals

This week, Matt and John talk about what Tencent's $2 bln investment in Snap means for both companies (John also goes down a rabbit hole about Chinese consumer psychology).

This week, Matt and John speak with Dominic Penaloza, CIO of naked Hub, about co-working in China as well as what naked Hub is doing to reinvent commercial real estate.

After a lackluster response from China for the iPhone 7, and consecutive quarterly declines in market share, many have wondered if we are watching the beginning of the end for Apple in China.

This week, Matt and John revisit their discussion about Apple in China to look at how the country's consumers have responded to the iPhone X.

Some call Uber's China foray a failure but looking at the DNA of the company, its values of radical ownership and operational focus have reshaped entrepreneurship in China.

This week, Matt and John talk about the lasting impact Uber has had on the entrepreneurs and their startups since they exited Chin

This week John and Matt follow up with Florian Bohnert, Head of Global Partnerships about what Mobike has been up to since we last talked, including:

- How Mobike has expanded into global markets

- The challenges of globalizing from China

- Finding talent and educating users

- Differences in recreational vs commute use in different countries

- Whether Mobike will expand beyond bikes

The first reference episode for China Tech Talk delves into the broader conditions enabling China speed, including:

- Economic growth and habituated pace of change

- Generational differences in user habits

- Super apps

- Values that don't include net neutrality or the open web

- The phone as life's control center

John and Matt start with new group chat rules as well as VPNs and end up talking about deeper questions the economic implications of a truly tech-savvy Chinese government, specifically:

- Rules affecting group chats in WeChat, QQ, and Baidu Tieba

- The technical sophistication of China's internet control policy

- How China's policy towards the internet helped create BAT

- What a China with perfect information might look like

John and Matt talk with Ling Kong, CTO of Dianrong about:

- How peer-to-peer (P2P) lending got started

- What makes Dianrong different from their competitors (hint: there's a reason we're talking to the CTO)

- How the government sees the P2P lending industry

- Why and how China's credit habits are changing

- What a private blockchain application could look like