After a several month hiatus Adeh and Kevin are back with season 2!This week we delve deep into ElonMusk's Twit-tastrophe and examine the odds of his success, and the success of other superapps. Then we segue to the China gaming market which is

#50 - Coworking spaces, incubators, and NFTs w/ Duco van Breemen

Aug 17th, 2022 1h 13m

Today we chat with Duco van Breemen.Just looking at what Duco has done – starts his first company (of many) at 11 years old, spends a decade in China doing government relations and supporting start-ups, moves to Australia and becomes CEO of a m

#49 - Everything Superapps w/ Robby Wade of Thisapp

Aug 3rd, 2022 1h 39m

Adeh and Kevin sit down with Robby Wade, CEO and Co-founder of Thisapp, "an all-in-one chat platform that makes it easy to connect with anyone and organize anything". We explore everything superapps from their success factors, determining their

#48 - The Review Revolution, LARPing, and Didi's $1bn fine

Jul 25th, 2022 54m 16s

This week we are all about how to front-run the opportunity:Bytedance is making an Instagram copy in China to compete with RED, but does the West need a RED copy?With a mess of review platforms in the West, we think it’s time for a review revol

#47 - Rebranding NFTs and livestreaming 'wholesome' content

Jul 13th, 2022 48m 50s

Write-up:This week we talk about China's big tech to give NFTs a new name in a tech rebranding to attempt to revitalize the industry in the gov's eyes, which is needed because companies like Alibaba are suffering small but telling 'burns' from

#46 - Data, cars, gaming, and experiencing a brand new China fad: 'Educational Infomercials'

Jun 24th, 2022 55m 3s

Bit of a monstruous episode this week, we normally try to stick to 4 stories, and we ended up going into about 10. We chat out the electric vehicle market, examine data security concerns from the national and corporate level, get an update from

#45 - All Things Ecommerce

Jun 3rd, 2022 51m 1s

This week we delve into ecommerce boom of short-video apps in China Douyin and Kuaishou then look at how ecommerce is and will evolve outside of China. Can Facebook and Instagram create a similar ecommerce pivot with their social media platform

#44 - Private Traffic and Elon Musk wants a WeChat-like Superapp

May 21st, 2022 47m 21s

This week we delve into the big slowdown of Tencent, and greather big tech in China, and look at how these companies are looking overseas markets for revenue potential, especially in games.We then talk a bit about WeChat; "private traffic" is a

#43 - China Metaverse - Crossover with GIN

May 10th, 2022 39m 34s

This week Adeh and Kevin team up with Fabian Gems and Lisa-Maria Stöger from GIN (Global Incubator Network) as we chat about the metaverse, how China's metaverse will look similar and different from the rest of the world, and a few fun digressi

#42 - Crackdown spreads to EU and thaws in China

Apr 28th, 2022 51m 19s

With Elon Musk acquiring Twitter and upending the status quo of the Western tech, Kevin and Adeh analyze and foretell the impact of the EU's two new upcoming tech regulation policies by examining China's tech crackdown as precedence.They end on

#41 - Genshin's global impact and turning off algorithms

Apr 6th, 2022 45m 28s

This week we talk about how China's big tech are coping with new regulations on recommendation algorithms; they are simply allowing users to 'turn them off'.Meanwhile, a Shanghai's games developer "Genshin Impact" becomes the first major Chines

#40 - Tech crackdown bottoming out and smartphone addictions

Mar 17th, 2022 54m 6s

This week Adeh and Kevin cover the latest Chinese government directive from the “Two Meetings”, as they predict the tech crackdown is finally consolidating and bottoming out. I mean... we can only go up from here, right? Also, we look at how Ea

#39 - Ed-tech, Gaming, and EVs

Mar 4th, 2022 52m 28s

This week's theme was 'continuity' – Adeh and Kevin are becoming real podcasters as they revisit previous topics. They recap the impacts of the crackdown on China's tutoring and gaming industry's, notice that another EV company is jumping into

#38 - China, China-Mates, and Me

Feb 18th, 2022 54m 43s

After nearly a decade of domination of social tech products, a cute metaverse avatar app seems to be challenging WeChat/Tencent. Adeh and Kevin delve deeper into the metaverse as they talk about tech issues on both sides of the Pacific.1) A yea

#37 - China tech maturing and savvying

Jan 29th, 2022 51m 49s

Kevin and Adeh go through a variety of topics which depicting shifting trends in China tech. China's tech is maturing and getting more business savvy, Electric vehicles are still booming with Geely getting more tech savvy, and China's gov is g

#36 - Finally, an episode that explains TikTok's algorithms

Jan 14th, 2022 54m 55s

Kevin and Adeh do a deep dive into platform's algorithms and Beijing's upcoming regulations on them. These regulations are aimed at moving responsibility and risk to companies and their algorithms. How can an algorithm be responsible for anythi

#35 - Tencent lies low while Bytedance soars, and the "QQ-verse"

Nov 25th, 2021 46m 9s

As Tencent and the rest of big China tech continues to suffer from the gov crackdown, Bytedance revenue soars. However, Tencent may just be lying low and contemplating their next move as the company seems surprisingly well equipped for the meta

#34 - Goodbye, LinkedIn. Hello, synthetic celebrities.

Oct 28th, 2021 44m 28s

This week we talk about more Western tech companies pulling out of China, this time a big and successful one; Microsoft's LinkedIn.We go deep into the real industry of fake virtual celebrities, talk about Alibaba's waning eCommerce dominance, a

#33 - Fines, elevators, and algorithms

Oct 14th, 2021 40m 49s

This week your co-hosts discuss Meituan's anti-trust fine, JD.com's foray into elevator ads and pets, and then go a little deep on the responsibility platforms have for their algorithms. This is especially timely as Facebook's whistleblower cri

#32 - 1 billion online, tech crackdown and how to deal with it

Oct 1st, 2021 1h 1m

This week Kevin and Adeh delve deep into China's tech crackdown. The crackdown has wiped hundreds of billions off the value of China's tech companies - is this the end or the beginning?Your hosts review the crackdown to date, examine how compan

#31 - Inside China's Gaming Industry with Pidou

Sep 9th, 2021 49m 3s

As Beijing releases unprecedented restrictions on gaming in China, Adeh and Kevin chat with their friend "Pidou" from one of China's biggest gaming companies.Your co-hosts get the inside story of how this and other recent changes are affecting

#30 - Understanding China's New Data Privacy Law

Aug 27th, 2021 45m 41s

This week Kevin and Adeh discuss Tencent's continued domination of mobile games, and then delve deep into the Chinese governments newest policies and actions, all of which aim to rein in China's tech sector.China's newest personal data privacy

#29 - China Tech in Limbo AND a special interview with JinYao Desandies

Aug 13th, 2021 42m 41s

This week your co-hosts analyze China's tech world's new norm; strong government regulation. There hasn't been too much in the news, why? Tech in China is all going quiet. IPOs are being cancelled, partnerships on hold, and more. When uncertain

#28 - Abolishing Forced Child Learning

Jul 30th, 2021 50m 44s

This week we discuss the directorate that has upended China's private education sector. For decades, private tutoring sector had been a hotbed for investment, since the pandemic began it has become one of the fastest growing sectors in China.Th

#27 - Tech Monopolies Opening up from Shenzhen to Silicon Valley

Jul 22nd, 2021 50m 47s

This week your co-hosts delve deep into the anti-monopoly crackdown which continues in both China and the US. Each side's government commonly say they are helping the 'little guys', but is this actually good for start-ups? Is it good for the re