Beijing

“A lot of people talk about Jingdong because they can do same-day delivery with a, within a handful of hours, sometimes as quick as four hours, within a large city like Beijing.”

“So for example, in Beijing, even if you do have a personal driver just by sheer law, based off your license plate, there is one weekday every single week where that car is not allowed to drive.”

“Because unlike hardware, the, an internet service company doesn't just have to operate at scale. It also has to implement an enormous number of controls that Beijing demands over Over certain kinds of public speech, whether it's monitoring or censorship or pro…”

“So in practical terms, if you're sitting in Beijing or Shanghai right now, you're not able to get on a half a dozen information sources, news sources, data sources that you could have three years ago.”

“I think one of the big theses that I have learned in this traveling is that which is happening among emerging markets among themselves is more shared in many cases than their compatriots in Silicon Valley or even Beijing.”

“There's actually stories about VCs who were able to catch some really fantastic companies in China that were targeting more like second, third, fourth tier cities. By literally just talking to waiters and waitresses and asking them, those who were working in B…”

“There is such a difference between first, second, third, fourth, fifth tier city in China, a much bigger difference than in the U S from state to state. I can take a state in the Midwest, compare it to New York or California. And that difference is far less th…”

“In his view, the their conflict between Beijing and Taipei is not imminent and not inevitable, and that's kind of my view.”