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“From my experience living there, I can understand why the president of, you know, the US and the premier of China don't get along. It's because When you get to the table, the way that they look at life is fundamentally different. So when you get to the table a…”

“I'm more worried about Donald Trump being the president of the United States than any person who can be the Chinese president, because I know the Chinese system will not produce a crazy president.”

“There's something in China called like nine nine six. Type of work style, which means they work from nine AM to nine PM, six days a week. Many companies have these kinds of policies around employees working on weekends. It's more commonplace than rare.”

“And this is something that's very prominent in Asia already, particularly in China. In the U S it's just starting”

“So then they started using our product, and we realized that not only they had some fakes, but actually they had 45% fakes in the market.”

“Like, obviously, a Chinese team would have a hard time convincing Western brands that they are trustworthy for anti-counterfeiting. It's sad to say, but it's the reality.”

“Innovators all over the world can get a patent in the US. You don't have to be a US citizen. You don't have to have a US company. You don't have to have any US ties. Similarly, anyone who, even if they don't live in Europe or have a European tie, can get a pat…”

“What they found was people were getting the food through the drive-thru in their car, parking in the parking lot, and then going inside to eat it, or they would walk through the drive-thru.”

“So the idea of localizing an e-learning course Into China right now is actually probably the worst thing you could think of doing as a company.”

“Like, if you go to KFC in China, It's a sit down experience. It's a middle class experience in America. It's kind of like a lower class experience. Like what's, what's amazing is these brands want to be seen as for sophisticated people in Asia.”

“You can teach an American how to be fluent in Chinese, but if you don't teach them how to also adopt the cultural aspect when you do it, like it's basically useless to learn the language.”

“Getting those boxes for our packaging from China from Shenzhen was a whole other story... We're trying to get somebody to send us like a hundred boxes because we were just starting off. Nobody bakes a hundred boxes in China. Like nobody would even talk to us, …”

“But then knowing America, you go, ah, I understand why it's never going to happen in America. Maybe, but like, it'll be 20 years behind China.”

“The chances of success are under one percent.”

“Uber was fighting a lost fight in that time. I don't think that they could, regardless of what they did, it wasn't gonna win. Given that there was a domestic option that, you know, everybody could back you know, there's a little bit of nationalism that comes o…”

“What a lot of people don't realize about China is they had desktops and they kind of leapfrogged laptops into smartphones. Where laptops were a thing in the West for like a while before smartphones came out.”

“It's been made clear that they have two algorithms, one for inside of China and one for outside of China. The one inside of China promotes social harmony, positive things, because the Chinese government wants people to see positive imagery and things that prom…”

“There's no way India will become a China because China, despite what's happening right now with COVID making it look like it's not organized. It's a very organized country and Xi Jinping has done a really good job of getting rid of corruption. And You know, th…”

“And I think India has all of the, you know, necessary components to be a China, right? And, you know, all, you know, really just need to set up the infrastructure there and, you know, the trade relations.”

“I think what's happening with the Chinese manufacturing is really going to become fractured across many different countries.”

“I believe only two percent of Chinese actually pay taxes.”

“Companies that were like, you know, what Americans would consider low class food, fast food, they actually were forced to reinvent themselves in Southeast Asia to be a middle class or an upper class experience. Where the meals are more expensive, but it's a si…”

“Two days before I flew back to China, I was fired from my company, the one that provided me that work visa.”

“I think the biggest problem is they grow up in a society that doesn't ask them to ask questions, that doesn't push them to want to know themselves.”

“I think the next big war is going to be fully automated. Like the problem is that it's going to be fully automated, but it's still including humans. So then we'll just have a massive chop, chop, chop of people. And it's gonna be, like, drones and chips and, li…”

“In China, if you went on a date, they made the assumption that you were potentially interested in marriage. If you went on a second date, it meant that you wanted to be in a relationship and you wanted to see what was gonna happen. If you're on a third date, y…”

“As China gets that, that larger middle-class, I think that we're already seeing that in real time, that even over there, you're going to start to Struggle to find people who want to go and work in those plants because, you know, they want to do higher value t…”

“They drink until they black out. There's like tipsy is like not acceptable.”

“You know, I sold fifteen million dollars of services in two years and my previous business maybe made like 30,000 dollars in like two years.”

“Well, and of course the first place that our rights went away was when they were, when we had resellers for our content in China and those all spiraled out of control because you lost all ability to track any usages. When did that happen? It's probably about 1…”

“What I think is that the factories that are going to be created in the U.S. Are going to be vastly different from the factories we are seeing in China or Indonesia or India or whatever, because the set of constraints is vastly different.”

“One thing I appreciate about American cultures, the willingness to be open and vulnerable. Because in my experience living in other countries, I've never seen anyone do that before of the companies I've worked for or worked with in all name called China and Vi…”

“I have not tried Deep Seek. I lived in China for long enough to know that I don't trust it.”

“I witnessed this in China, where people like the kids were coddled. I've never seen such coddling before in my life. And the parents did not give the children an opportunity to think for themselves and do for themselves. And so they create these kids that are …”

“And then when I was doing that, I realized that they needed other things like getting listed on exchanges. And those were the things that really made me even a magnitude of order higher in money than the other things I was doing. And when I realized that I sto…”

“Consumer facing companies, consumer facing startups who are worried about competition from overseas, be that from China or be that elsewhere, may do well to understand that sometimes these overseas competitors don't have a full grasp of full funnel marketing s…”

“And after two months of doing that, I was able to raise money for the guy and then he wanted me to advise him and then other people wanted me to fundraise and then other people wanted me to advise and then this whole thing kind of spiraled into a crazy thing a…”

“It's the most modern city in the world. It's leading the world with leading the world with innovation in the fields of like robotics and AI. So I think if people want to have like a glance about the future, how the future is going to look like, they should vis…”

“I was a 10 years in China. And in inside mainland China, like people don't really show their emotions too much. So over 10 years of living there, I kind of stopped really showing my emotions, even though I didn't stop feeling them.”