China, every mention
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every year anyone Alex Lieberman 26Isaac Medeiros 2Michael Sikand 1Jesse Pujji 1Jesse Poogee 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where China comes up
Why Software is Eating the World
- ▶ 20:07 Alex Lieberman I will say that I am personally extremely optimistic about American entrepreneurship and innovation, but it does feel like competition with Chinese technology companies has never been more real.
Momentum is Everything
- ▶ 8:37 Alex Lieberman In 2008, he was meeting with Tim Cook about a production snafu in China. 2 times in the scene
How My Company Went From Zero to a $10 Million Run Rate
- ▶ 2:32 Jesse Poogee Let's go to China.
The Difference Between Demand and Product Market Fit
- ▶ 11:59 Alex Lieberman I would always say, like, yeah, you know, having a physical good business where you have to worry about, like, manufacturing in China or Vietnam and your supply chain
How Hoka Ran Away With The Competition
- ▶ 7:06 Alex Lieberman Mermud told him that Hoka had a thousand pairs about to be shipped from a Chinese factory, and based on this short trial running on them, Platjes said that Boulder Running Company would buy as many as the store could get,
Preparing for Acquisition w/ Our Future
- ▶ 21:41 Michael Sikand And a twenty-two-year-old kid who managed to sell his fintech app to a hedge fund for tens of millions only a few years after immigrating to the U.S. from China.
Is it Time To Pivot ‘The Plunge’?
- ▶ 14:28 Alex Lieberman He basically was like the designer at the factory in China, uh, iterated on the design and added a bunch of suction cups to it.
Are Your Goals Motivated by Joy or by Fear?
- ▶ 29:55 Alex Lieberman One fear is my, my, uh, partner today, uh, sent me the invoice for the new boards we're getting from China.
How a 26-Year Old With Autism Built a $10 Million Samurai Sword Business
- ▶ 23:55 Isaac Medeiros but yeah, I, I, so I had to end up getting like, uh, I contacted a lot of companies in China.
- ▶ 27:05 Isaac Medeiros I think I spent, like, eight hours a day on TikTok, just, like, trying to make videos for the first year, and then, like, another four hours doing shipping stuff and, like, buying stuff from China.
Takeaways from Rihanna’s Career & How to Test Your Business Ideas
- ▶ 3:36 Alex Lieberman China is getting back to their factories from Chinese new year. 2 times in the scene
How to Build Your Second Brain (BONUS EPISODE)
- ▶ 7:44 Alex Lieberman It involves throwing plungers at a dartboard like axes, and my immediate goal for The Plunge is to successfully launch the game and sell out of my first production run of inventory that I'm having made in China.
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.
Our 2023 Predictions, from AI to the Creator Economy
- ▶ 36:15 Alex Lieberman I got connected to a guy who has relationships in China.
- ▶ 37:46 Alex Lieberman As of right now, cost, if I wanted to get it to Jesse Poogee's house from China, so the whole process to get it to you is 68 dollars.
Building a Multimillion Dollar Business…By Yourself
- ▶ 36:04 Alex Lieberman Like, I've sent you guys this backyard game I'm playing, and like, or that I'm making, and like, the process of talking to the industrial, uh, designer about the design of the game, and, uh, getting videos from the manufacturer in China…
Why and How I Bought Bitcoin
- ▶ 10:32 Alex Lieberman China in 2017 banned the use of domestic cryptocurrency exchanges for people to trade crypto, and most recently, in the last few days, 2 times in the scene
The Trailblazer
- ▶ 0:27 Alex Lieberman I told the story of Colin Wong and Pinduoduo, which is the two hundred billion dollar e-commerce behemoth in China.
The Billion Dollar Builder
- ▶ 2:15 Alex Lieberman It has quickly become one of the largest e-commerce companies in China and the entire world, doing 8.5 billion dollars in revenue in 2020 and taking up 14% of the entire e-commerce market in China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:38 Alex Lieberman Colin was born in 1980, just outside of Hangzhou, China, to working class parents.
- ▶ 8:47 Alex Lieberman The first is rising consumption in China as a portion of GDP, and the second is rising income of the middle class. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:17 Alex Lieberman Pinduoduo obsessed over an audience that had been forgotten by the e-commerce powerhouses of JD.com and Alibaba in China, and those were individuals in tier three and four cities. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:14 Alex Lieberman They saw that smaller, lower income, more rural cities were not adequately served by the e-commerce giants in China, and they saw an opportunity to fill that gap and create their own entry point into a hyper crowded market.