Liu: EachNet Was the Only E-Commerce Platform in Early 2000s China
Larry Liu · Weee!: Larry Liu · Mar 18, 2024 · at 9:30
Weee! founder Larry Liu describes the early landscape of Chinese internet commerce when he first experimented with selling secondhand goods online.
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“We have never seen this kind of thing before, and there was no e-commerce in China. Only each net.”
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