China
7 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Oct 19, 2023 by Gina Gotthilf · said 50 times in 26 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Gina Gotthilf (8), Lenny Rachitsky (7), Brian Tolkin (6), Marc Andreessen (5), Sherwin Wu (4), Arielle Jackson (2), Stewart Butterfield (1), Scott Belsky (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 9 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode
2025 9 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
- How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
- Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield
- $46B of hard truths: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear | Ben Horowitz (a16z)
- How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue
- Anthropic co-founder: AGI predictions, leaving OpenAI, what keeps him up at night | Ben Mann
- 35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Lessons from scaling Uber and Opendoor | Brian Tolkin (Head of Product at Opendoor, ex-Uber)
- Conscious leadership: Unlocking vision, strategy and purpose | JM Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)
- 5 essential questions to craft a winning strategy | Roger Martin (author, advisor, speaker)
- Building a world-class data org | Jessica Lachs (VP of Analytics and Data Science at DoorDash)
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 18 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf
- Failure
- Driving alignment within teams, work-life balance, and the changing PM landscape | Nikita Miller
- Radical Candor: From theory to practice with author Kim Scott
- The full-stack PM | Anuj Rathi (Swiggy, Jupiter Money, Flipkart)
- Brian Chesky’s new playbook
- Monetizing passions, scaling marketplaces, and stories from a creator economy vet | Camille Hearst
- Lessons on product sense, AI, the first mile experience, and the messy middle | Scott Belsky (Adobe)
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
- An inside look at how the New York Times builds product | Alex Hardiman (CPO, the New York Times)
- Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook)
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
Everything said about China, oldest first
Oct 19, 2023 bullish
Gotthilf: Tech is one-thirtieth of US GDP share in Latin America
“In terms of percentage of GDP that tech occupies compared to other markets, it's very promising. We're at like one third of India, one 10th of China, one 30th of the United States, meaning that, like, Tech companies can grow a lot so that they occupy that spac…”
Oct 19, 2023
Gotthilf: Duolingo reached 1M first-day downloads in China before being blocked
“I went and launched Duolingo in China, and it got downloaded by a million people in the first day, and then the app got blocked, and we, you know, because of the government, and then we couldn't figure out what to do, and then everyone rated the app, like, one…”
Dec 13, 2023 negative
Duolingo hit 1M day-one downloads in China before a government ban
“I went and launched Duolingo in China, and it got downloaded by a million people in the first day, and then the app got blocked, and we, you know, because of the government, and then we couldn't figure out what to do, and then everyone rated the app, like, one…”
Jan 29, 2026 bearish
Mar 8, 2026 bullish
Younis: Autonomy will be standard and near-free within seven years
“It will not be a long time. You're already seeing this happen in China where the downward pricing pressure for that autonomous product for the lack of better word will become close to free. So now you fast forward five to seven years and every car Has some lev…”
Mar 8, 2026 negative
May 17, 2026
Kalinowski: Top Chinese assembly lines have dropped from 200 to 10 workers
“When you really go and look at a modern manufacturing facility like in China, at the top tier of tier one suppliers, there's not very many people on the line anyway. The entire printed circuit board line is essentially got no people on it anymore. The raw boar…”