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My First Million 6 
Top Founders 6 
the Neon Show 5 
American Optimist 4 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 4 
Capital Allocators 4 
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Cheeky Pint 3 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 3 
Mixergy 2 
BG2 Pod 2 
No Priors 2 
Invest Like the Best 2 
Acquired 1 
the Knowledge Project 1 
Latent Space 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where WeChat comes up on the a16z Podcast, We Live to Build, 20VC, Another Podcast, All-In
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?
FPV Drones -The Next War Is Already Here — Yaroslav Azhnyuk, The Fourth Law & Noah Smith, Noahpinion
- ▶ 1:21:07 Yaroslav Azhnyuk Um, like even, even WeChat is like such a more advanced app than anything we have in the West.
Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta
- ▶ 27:12 Ranjan Roy I don't, it, no one's gonna be WeChat in the U.S.
How AI Agents Will Transform the Financial System with Circle Co-Founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire
- ▶ 10:15 Jeremy Allaire You know, my WhatsApp or I can pick up my WeChat and I can just communicate in video with anyone anywhere and it just works.
SpaceX’s Lunar Mass Driver, OpenAI Hires Meta’s Top Ad Exec, Zuck Builds CEO Agent | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 1:08 John Coogan Uh, we chat with it as well as, you know, solve math and physics.
Elon's Moon Mass Driver: Here's How He'll Do It
- ▶ 1:09 John Coogan Uh, we chat with it as well as, you know, solve math and physics.
OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
- ▶ 18:00 Ranjan Roy I haven't heard in a while since the days of everyone wanted to be WeChat, and we would hear about Chinese super apps, and it was funny to me that they kind of use that, but I don't understand why that's like that interesting.
Ben Thompson from Stratechery on AI ads, the end of SaaS, and the future of media
- ▶ 24:31 Ben Thompson So I think I wrote about like WeChat and what it meant for the iPhone's relative competitive position in China, how it's different than sort of other countries.
FULL INTERVIEW: Bill Bishop Thinks China’s Military is Still Deeply Corrupt
- ▶ 22:28 Bill Bishop As much as sort of getting to AGI and, and these, these massive models, they're really more focused on diffusing, you know, how do you use AI and all sorts of, uh, tasks in your apps, in WeChat, in for, for, for medical, for like seeing…
Kling AI reaches 12M MAU, China's aging tech worker crisis, drama at ThinkingMachine | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:17 John Coogan They integrated with WeChat to accelerate distribution, and the company was worth around eighteen billion dollars by 2018, just seven years into the journey.
OpenAI’s Potential, Google’s Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
- ▶ 33:04 Ranjan Roy He's not saying it is absolutely critical for the business to win at every single thing, but, but it's still, they, they, it's like, remember when everyone wanted to be WeChat, the super app, like in the West.
Elon Musk: A Different Conversation w/ Nikhil Kamath | Full Episode | People by WTF Ep. 16 · Nikhil Kamath
Stablecoin special: Zach Abrams (Bridge) and Henri Stern (Privy)
- ▶ 23:22 John Collison It's like, you know, if you have WeChat, it's because you know people in China.
Dan Sundheim of D1 Capital on the art of public market investing
- ▶ 1:12:22 Dan Sundheim Obviously came out of China, like, you know, WeChat was like, really the most, probably the most advanced form of social media, um, globally.
Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
- ▶ 8:07 Erik Torenberg So what do future AI human interfaces look like, both in terms of hardware and software is the vision for kind of a WeChat, like super app?
The App That’ll Be Bigger Than TikTok
- ▶ 6:39 Shaan Puri WeChat. 3 times in the scene
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.
China, China, China. Breaking Down China’s Tech Surge | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 50:20 Bill Gurley On the watch list, people are very curious if Tencent's gonna do something, you know, obviously, they, WeChat's still extremely, um, important in China, and so that's a great asset if they were to bring something, but they haven't been…
- ▶ 56:23 Bill Gurley Uh, you know, WeChat went, I mean, Tencent went flat for a couple of years because of games reforms.
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
- ▶ 42:30 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
Trust Is the Most Valuable Intangible Currency in Business
- ▶ 8:53 Sean Weisbrot You know, people are just talking to me on WeChat.
Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao
- ▶ 12:54 Grace Shao In fact, they're the only and first one that have actually integrated Deep Seek into their products, um, into their WeChat, which, which obviously, um, all of you know about. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:18 Grace Shao Like I'm talking about like 95 year old, my 95 year old grandma on WeChat sending me stickers 24 seven.
Finding the Next Figma, Wiz, & Stripe Before It's Obvious | Neil Mehta Interview · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 47:00 Neil Mehta And they're like, oh, we're using QQ, which was the predecessor to WeChat. 2 times in the scene
Jordan Schneider (ChinaTalk) On the US-China Power Struggle
- ▶ 16:05 Jordan Schneider So for instance, Jeffrey Goldberg, you know, the equivalent of the Chinese Jeffrey Goldberg, if they were added to the, you know, war planning group, WeChat group would not have published that, right?
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.
The END of LUXURY GOODS? (Trump’s Tariffs)
- ▶ 10:58 Jordi Hays They don't have that in China because of WeChat and these, and these sort of super apps.
The FULL HISTORY of Temu (Why it's EXPLODING!)
- ▶ 11:12 unnamed speaker And also they're, they're bringing in this like social mechanic where group buying, basically you, you click on the item you want, and then, and then you send that link to everyone else in your social network on WeChat.
- ▶ 50:54 unnamed speaker Uh, Tencent came in, and, uh, they were able to leverage WeChat, uh, as, to fuel PDD's growth.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 1:15:57 Ben Gilbert Tencent, of course, also does direct investing, but the idea that you could get distribution through WeChat, it's kind of like, it's not distribution, but it is manufacturing.
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.
Learn how to win on the internet in 28 min [tiktok shop, trends, building cult brands]
- ▶ 21:16 Oren (Oren Meets World) It's actually so easy to use Alibaba or go talk now through WeChat or with translation or the amount of Chinese people that speak English or to anywhere in the world to make something that really comes down to more of like distribution of…
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.
Real Money Gaming Business Explained By Zupee Founder Dilsher Malhi | Neon Show
- ▶ 31:05 Dilsher Malhi So Tencent, the distribution came from WeChat, messaging apps.
Your Anxiety Might Be Trapped Creative Energy Trying to Escape
- ▶ 42:19 Sean Weisbrot I translated WeChat.
E171: DOJ sues Apple, AI arms race, Reddit IPO, Realtor settlement & more
- ▶ 1:53 Jason Calacanis In Asia, they mentioned how Alipay, WeChat, and Paytm are super apps.
Weee!: Larry Liu
- ▶ 27:35 Guy Raz I want to, I'm, I want to sort of, it's, it's a bit of a digression, but it's important because there's some, there's a part of your life at this time, and maybe even to this day, that is almost uniquely Chinese in that you were on WeChat,…
- ▶ 35:30 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Larry, with a brand new green card but no job, leveraged his eBay and WeChat experiences to build a new kind of group buying online business.
- ▶ 36:06 Guy Raz So by 2015, Larry and his friends figured out how to leverage the group buying experiences on WeChat into a streamlined e-commerce platform. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:32 Larry Liu She reached out to me on WeChat.
- ▶ 49:08 Larry Liu Most investors couldn't understand why people would buy things in WeChat groups.
- ▶ 1:09:19 Guy Raz And, and was WeChat mainly the sort of the, the platform on which people learned about We, or were there other places that people found out about it? 4 times in the scene
Deepfakes, AGI, Jobs Under Threat & More | DevRev Founder, Manoj Agarwal | Neon Show
- ▶ 48:11 Siddhartha Ahluwalia WeChat became
This Hedge Fund Manager Got Away With Insider Trading… Then Made Billions (#509)
All-In Summit: In conversation with Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 15:37 Brian Armstrong It's like you, you buy the crypto on Coinbase, sometimes you'll move it to a Chrome extension, you have to connect your wallet into this thing, and like, you have to know what private keys are, and so, if we can just make that where, you…
No Priors Ep. 20 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
Sean interview with FaceTime GuangDong China TV in Feb 2015
- ▶ 11:07 unnamed speaker It's like, come back to Shenzhen, and I know him through a couch surfing WeChat group, and we just started talking.
- ▶ 18:12 Sean Weisbrot And we had to keep posting on the WeChat, and we had to edit the videos, and get the audio together, and all the photos, and edit them, and, you know, make sure that everything would keep running.
Ep 57: Balaji Srinivasan on the Severity of the Bank Crisis and the Future of Bitcoin · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 49:29 Balaji Srinivasan WeChat, and Alipay, and so on and so forth.
Global Investing in Tech: Pattern Recognition, Founder Traits, Momentum | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 12:20 Connie Chan I wrote about a super app recently where WeChat is like the best example of it in my mind, but it's really people who can go to one company as kind of that one-stop shop, like you mentioned, that is not single product, single problem-solve…
E121: Macro update, Fed hike, CRE debt bubble, Balaji's Bitcoin bet, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 1:20:24 Jason Calacanis They're using apps like WeChat to dictate social score and social behavior, whether it's smoking on a train or not paying your bills.
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.
Mike Pompeo: Negotiating with Tyrants, Spy Balloons (or UFOs?) & Why Trump Didn't Ban TikTok · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 21:16 Mike Pompeo We, WeChat presents a similar set of issues as well for companies that are using WeChat as a payment tool or communications tool. 3 times in the scene
Jonathan Swanson on Building a Unicorn and Delegating 90% of Your Life
- ▶ 14:05 Jesse Pujji They'd be like WeChat in China or something like everyone would just go to Craigslist for everything.
Hila Qu: The Ultimate Guide to Product Growth at Your Startup | 20VC #967 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Building the Right Product, At the Right Time, For the Right People - with Jack Butcher
- ▶ 51:27 Jack Butcher The everything app, which is, I think, WeChat inspired, or at least like analogous to WeChat, right? 2 times in the scene
India's Favorite WhatsApp Solution Provider Ft. Karthik Jagannathan, Founder of Gallabox
- ▶ 37:26 Karthik Jagannathan So, in many ways, Siddhartha WhatsApp in India is the WeChat of China, right?
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 35:38 Balaji Srinivasan Their WeChat doesn't work.
He Made $5 Profit Per Customer and Called It Printing Money
- ▶ 36:25 Sean Weisbrot In 2015, I think it was, it was about how to be, how to become a millionaire using WeChat, which is a Chinese application. 2 times in the scene
A Top Computer Scientist Got Drained in Seconds From a Discord Link
- ▶ 39:26 Sean Weisbrot And then in the last decade, we've had the rise of WeChat. 4 times in the scene
2 Billion People Use a Super App That Isn't One
- ▶ 2:25 Robbie Wade Inspiration from WeChat, um, which sort of led us on the mission to build this app. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:33 Robbie Wade And you know, when WeChat came out, it was really interesting and WeChat 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:26 Sean Weisbrot So yes, I was one of the first users of WeChat, I think in 2010 or early 2011. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:23 Sean Weisbrot I think this happened because the founders of WeChat were the founders of QQ. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:31 Sean Weisbrot That message is on WeChat. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:40 Sean Weisbrot If you look at Slack, you look at discord, you look at WhatsApp, you look at all of these companies that have the potential to put a paywall on a group or on a community and didn't is a hundred percent, not even WeChat does it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:01 Sean Weisbrot So they're, they're taking a WeChat approach, but with no communications inside. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:09 Robbie Wade Like I have been inspired by WeChat in from like a business model perspective, because I think feature facilitating revenue is something that's underrated in the West. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:36 Robbie Wade Or the work version of WeChat? 2 times in the scene
E82: All-In Summit: Claire Cormier Thielke on China + Q&A with Flexport's Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 5:28 Claire Cormier Thielke Their WeChat is their ID. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:47 Claire Cormier Thielke And again, if you layer that on top of this WeChat platform we were just talking about, a place where I can go and I could make a new friend right now. 2 times in the scene
Elon Musk: Twitter's bot problem, SpaceX's grand plan, Tesla stories & more
Why "Difficult, Costly, and Weird" Is Wired Into Your Brain
- ▶ 19:31 Sean Weisbrot I saw WeChat form.
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 2:30:20 Balaji Srinivasan Their, um, their Facebook equivalent, WeChat is better than Facebook.
Arjun Sethi – A Technology Company that Deploys Capital at Tribe, Venture is Eating the Investment World 10 (Capital Allocators, EP. 240)
- ▶ 19:30 Arjun Sethi So the WeChat, the Kakaos, all of these companies that were growing at, again, high velocity.
Regulation - Who will notice?
- ▶ 25:25 Benedict Evans Does WeChat go global?
Mike Tian – Moat Trajectories and Investing in China at WCM (Capital Allocators, EP.212)
Tech in china, from inside and outside
- ▶ 7:17 Benedict Evans Because no one can actually, I mean, I can install WeChat on my iPhone, but none of the services exist outside China.
- ▶ 30:02 Lillian Li That goes on because all of them also just like goes on Twitter or like, or post on the WeChat and it's not even like shade, uh, you know, so like bite dancers, like just, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:07 Lillian Li You can go into a restaurant, scan a QR code, order, pay within this kind of instance, you know, single serve app experience within WeChat, and then just leave in the way that I don't think you can do in Facebook Messenger or Facebook,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:25 Benedict Evans And to me, that's always much more interesting than saying does WeChat go global?
The Billion Dollar Builder
- ▶ 10:28 Alex Lieberman It was this experience of building games on top of WeChat, which is one of China's super apps, that Wong landed on the idea of social e-commerce. 2 times in the scene
MFM #162: Why Clubhouse Will Fail
- ▶ 53:44 Shaan Puri So WeChat, I think, or, um, one of the Chinese companies, they had this presentation I saw, and, you know, I'm sitting there trying to go through a Chinese presentation, so, you know, maybe someone's lost their translation, but I got, I… 2 times in the scene
Clubhouse and the endless cycle of social apps
- ▶ 29:02 Benedict Evans And this is sort of interesting that there was sort of step one as a couple of years ago is WeChat goes global and that clearly didn't happen. 2 times in the scene
Two Europeans talk about China
- ▶ 4:06 Benedict Evans And you really saw this a couple of years ago with the whole bots thing, like, cause WeChat is a thing, which is WeChat, here is this app with lots of other services and products that happen inside it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:12 Benedict Evans So a couple of years ago, a lot of people were saying, oh my God, WeChat, WeChat's going to win in India. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:50 Benedict Evans Well, it's interesting to look at some of the conversation that came out of India around how WeChat failed in India, which was essentially not a digital story or even a China India story. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:15 Benedict Evans Um, and clearly like Facebook tried to copy WeChat and failed completely.
45% of This Cancer Drug Was Fake — Here's How We Proved It
- ▶ 37:00 Hugo Garcia-Cotte So after hundreds of attempts, they kept failing at counterfeiting us, but because they were using our system, we managed to get their IP address, their WeChat account. 3 times in the scene
The FTC and Facebook
- ▶ 8:49 Benedict Evans I mean, there's an interesting thing in the States document where they set out very carefully social networks outside America don't count, where they're trying to rule, they're trying to stop Facebook from talking about WeChat, for example.
Beerud Sheth on building Elance (nowUpwork) & Gupshup
- ▶ 36:59 Beerud Sheth And if this sounds like a crazy idea, you should just look at, you know, look no further than China and WeChat in China is incredibly popular and it's really a full fledged platform or an operating system, you could say. 2 times in the scene
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?
- ▶ 16:40 Paris Childress A partner in China who can help us get into China that unlocks Baidu and, uh, WeChat the, um,
E8: TikTok + Oracle, how privacy loss will impact society, economy & COVID outlooks for 2021
- ▶ 5:49 Jason Calacanis The Commerce Department has announced that it will ban US downloads and business transactions with TikTok and WeChat. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:09 Jason Calacanis I guess it was a movie file or an image that then wound up hacking his WeChat and his phone. 2 times in the scene
Sandra Robertson – Oxford's Queen of Endowment Management (Capital Allocators, EP.130)
- ▶ 41:34 Sandra Robertson So they will have a lot of dialogue, whether it's on WeChat, Slack, picking up the phone to our managers, and you know, thank goodness not many of our managers are panicking.
E0: COVID-19 Political, Economic & Social Ramifications featuring David Friedberg
- ▶ 45:14 Chamath Palihapitiya No, no, there, there have been zero here, but there, there are tons of them on WeChat.
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