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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where WeChat comes up
Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World
- ▶ 28:52 Matteo Franceschetti So on WeChat, Red Note, and Equivalent.
Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash
- ▶ 31:55 Andrew Macdonald (Mac) We, we, because of the nature of the sort of investor bases in each company, um, you know, at one point we were not able to operate on the WeChat platform. 2 times in the scene
Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 14:48 Rory O'Driscoll China, obviously, in mobile, has a single super app for everything, and you do everything through WeChat, right?
Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:18 Aravind Srinivas Um, it, it works out in China in WeChat because there's no other way for them to fund the whole thing, you know?
20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- ▶ 59:04 Alex Schultz That's one concept of stuff that actually happens in things like WeChat and so on.
Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:27 unnamed speaker So the like of, ah, you know, Tencent and, you know, WeChat and Alipay and Alibaba all took off and you just live in this
- ▶ 42:13 unnamed speaker And I basically went to pitch for Sequoia and Tencent and, uh, and, uh, and then one of the idea is actually to pivoted the product to API product to servicing Tencent to kind of power, which I pay global settlement.
- ▶ 42:30 unnamed speaker Pay using, uh, VChat, you know, uh, and, and, and, and someone will settle the merchants doing the FX on the back of that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:04 unnamed speaker Uh, and it's the same thing from the, uh, the, the, the WeChat paid department.
Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:40 Mike Krieger You know, people love talking about the, like the super app and, and we chat, and there was some technical challenges solved by those at scale that were of the same scale of challenges that Facebook was challenged was doing.
Nik Storonsky, Revolut Founder: What Revolut Needs to Do to Hit $100BN Valuation | E1233 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:14 Nik Storonsky Well, if, if you look at Asia, right, so it's a bit different dynamic, so we've got companies like WeChat, so they're very strong.
Aman Narang: 5 Lessons Scaling Toast to $14BN Market Cap | E1192 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:15 Aman Narang And then one of us had done some research on Alipay and WeChat about using your phones to order and pay at restaurants.
Meta CMO Alex Schultz: Competing Against TikTok & Snap; Why Reels Failed at First | E985 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:03 Alex Schultz Um, WeChat took markets.
Hila Qu: The Ultimate Guide to Product Growth at Your Startup | 20VC #967 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Cathie Wood: Elon & Twitter; Why Facebook is a Value Stock Now; ARK's Performance | 20VC #949 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:52 Cathie Wood And, you know, we have, uh, looked at WeChat Pay and,
20VC: The 2 Core Areas Value Will Accrue In Crypto, Why Crypto Will Drive The Re-Centralisation of Talent Back Into Silicon Valley & Why Regulation Is The Opposite of What We Should Be Concerned By in Crypto with Avichal Managing Partner @ Electric Capita
- ▶ 19:19 Avichal Garg And in those situations, I think if a government decided to fully embrace this, you know, you're seeing really amazing things like social scoring on top of WeChat in China.
20VC: Lightspeed Partner Adam Goldberg on Why There Remains No Mass Market Crypto Consumer Product, The Future For The Token Economy, The Good and Bad of Telegram's ICO and Why The Rate of Founder Learning is The Most Important Element A VC Can Assess
- ▶ 17:28 Adam Goldberg You think about Facebook, you think about WeChat, they're perceived differently.
20VC: Lessons From Slack and Opendoor on Price Sensitivity, Why The Best CEOs Are Able To Manage Momentum and Why Being A Board Member is a "Full Contact Sport" with Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 6:06 Glenn Solomon Tencent's WeChat was created on mobile, and it's probably the most valuable digital asset in the world today.
20VC: 3 Key Differences Between US and Asian Tech Markets & With Such Large Incumbents Chasing Early Acquisitions, Is There A Market For Later Stage VC with Crystal Huang, Investor @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 13:47 Crystal Huang There's the whole WeChat ecosystem.
20VC: Inside The World's Leading Crypto Fund, The Future Exit Environment for Crypto Assets & The Beauty Of Benevolent Dictatorship with Olaf Carlson-Wee, Founder @ Polychain Capital
- ▶ 24:18 Olaf Carlson Wee I would actually go direct to the source and start reading Reddit, Twitter, developer mailing lists, get in some WhatsApp groups, Telegram groups, WeChat groups, and just actually get involved with the community.
20VC: Why VC Is The Perfect Preparation For Founding A Startup & Changing The World Of Online Fashion with Chris Morton, Co-Founder & CEO @ Lyst
- ▶ 25:20 Chris Morton Maybe we'll partner with somebody who we can, you know, pop up our API into WeChat or into, you know, another sort of property there.
20VC: Europe's Youngest Series A Venture Partner, James Wise @ Balderton Capital on How To Get Into Venture & What The Future Of The VC Industry Looks Like
- ▶ 12:26 James Wise I'm thinking about hiring the best person in the world to do this, and I'm going to take them out of Google, and I'm going to take them out of WeChat, and I'm going to take them out of Flipkart, whatever it is, I'm going to take those…
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 13:49 Christian Hernandez And you saw that in China actually a fairly long time ago where, you know, QQ, um, the original Tencent app before WeChat was actually literally this all-encompassing consumer portal inside of a mobile device because that was the primary…