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Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator
- ▶ 35:28 unnamed speaker He's, like, a grad student in China and reached out to me.
Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:44 Blake Scholl Uh, is it possible for America to actually compete with China on manufacturing at scale? 5 times in the scene
Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" · Y Combinator
- ▶ 33:53 Sam Altman China kind of subjectively grows 10 X a year for the next many years.
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:11 unnamed speaker I have actually built a unicorn startup in China for the past 10 years.
How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:17 Aadit Palicha I think, I mean, if you look at even like places like China, right?
- ▶ 32:38 Aadit Palicha And I think, you know, the Chinese guys were able to, to invent new forms of e-commerce too, right?
How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:37 Carl Pei So, one time when I was visiting relatives in China, we, um, went to the electronics market, and we bought a mp-three player 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:23 Carl Pei Like, it was a Facebook era, and I was like, should I write a pitch for YC, or should I take this offer in China to be a part of the, the beginning of the smartphone kind of industry there? 7 times in the scene
Diego Saez Gil - How Pachama Uses Tech to Solve Climate Change · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:10 Diego Saez-Gil Uh, my co-founder, Tommy, he had been to China sourcing merchandising, but, uh, I had, I haven't ever been to China. 2 times in the scene
Diana Hu on Augmented Reality and Building a Startup in a New Market · Y Combinator
Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- ▶ 50:30 Gustaf Alströmer This is true for most markets in most countries, like the exceptions are China, South Korea, Russia, maybe a handful of other countries. 2 times in the scene
Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India's Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:24 Vidit Aatrey Now we have even set up a supply chain from China.
- ▶ 17:13 Vidit Aatrey If you look at, for example, China, like Tencent invests in so many use cases that are happening on WeChat, because they can't do everything themselves.
- ▶ 41:26 Vidit Aatrey I think one very positive thing has happened in the ecosystem is when we started, everyone was like, tell me what are you a copy of either in US or in China, right? 3 times in the scene
Monetizing Podcasts and Newsletters - Chris Best of Substack and Jonathan Gill of Backtracks · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:40 Chris Best And the kinds of things you're seeing happen in China right now sort of hinted that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:05 Chris Best Like in China, everyone has payment, like we pay and all this stuff in there.
- ▶ 26:51 Jonathan Gill And then hearkening back to the Chinese market, one of the reasons it's so big is they value educational content at a higher price point than maybe other parts of the world. 2 times in the scene
Cindy Mi and Qi Lu Share Advice for Entrepreneurs Building Global Companies · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:17 Qi Lu As many of the YC community, uh, in the U.S. or China know, uh, WebKit has been a tremendous, uh, entrepreneurship success, and Cindy, uh, credit to your success, you more and more become a role model for many entrepreneurs.
- ▶ 7:55 Qi Lu Uh, in China, a lot of people will always say it's hyper competitive, uh, very, very aggressive. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:11 Qi Lu Essentially, particularly the Chinese parents, ah, the China's traditional value, learning education, willing to spend, that's
- ▶ 23:08 Cindy Mi They're, they're five times better than what they can find in China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:46 Qi Lu The learner will be in, uh, maybe in North America, the teacher will be in China, sort of the, uh, it's a swap, if you will, than the original product. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:00 Qi Lu What are the, the challenges that you had to overcome by building global company that's based in China? 2 times in the scene
A Conversation on Hard Tech with Eric Migicovsky · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:31 Eric Migicovsky Uh, we, we ended up making them one by one, actually, so the first watches for this first watch, um, they were manufactured, we bought the circuit boards from China, we had the metal, the kind of metal casing of the watch, made at a small… 2 times in the scene
SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
- ▶ 37:14 Eli Schwartz I mean, they're locally specific, so there's Baidu for China. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:04 Eli Schwartz So, unless Korea is a specific target for you, or China is a specific target, Google's all you're gonna need.
Michael Seibel - Building Product · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:26 Michael Seibel Another company doing B to B was in China, and interestingly enough, reaching out over email in a B to B context in China just isn't a well done practice. 2 times in the scene
Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:35 Ryan Petersen So what the freight forwarder does when in the freight network is you're moving this freight as a relay race being handed off from a trucking company in China to the warehouse to another trucking company to a port.
- ▶ 3:29 Ryan Petersen So our business was importing motorbikes from China as well as electric scooters. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:04 Ryan Petersen I knew, so I, Flexport emerged out of, yeah, I had this business selling shipping manifest data, but that actually evolved and emerged out of a business that my brother and I and our same business partner, Michael Kanko ran buying scooters…
- ▶ 22:57 Ryan Petersen Um, we're in, uh, Shenzhen and Hong Kong in China, and then kind of five offices plus warehouses in the U.S.
- ▶ 31:25 Ryan Petersen And, and nothing in the last 50 years lifted more people out of poverty than, than the opening of adoption of free market economic policies in the east, in particular in China and India and other places.
Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:44 unnamed speaker Two, China. 6 times in the scene
Advice for Students and Recent Graduates on Finding Jobs – Liz Wessel of WayUp · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:18 Liz Wessel Um, but meanwhile, I actually, uh, went about hiring this like company in China to create thousands of cards that would put the logos of all these businesses on the back.
John Preskill on Quantum Computing · Y Combinator
- ▶ 44:25 John Preskill Because, um, at least with, you know, our current photonics technology, there's no way I can send a single photon from here to China without there being a very high probability that it gets lost in the fiber somewhere.
Crypto Investors - Linda Xie and Avichal Garg · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:28 Linda Xie And, and, and so there's also something like in China where you have all this censorship of using different applications. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:50 Linda Xie And even, even like when you have scenarios where people are like mining in China and then all of a sudden China starts cracking down on mining, these miners have to move elsewhere and you're seeing like people move over to Washington…
A.I. Policy and Public Perception - Miles Brundage and Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:06 Tim Hwang So this is a question of like, it seems like China's making a lot of moves to really invest in AI in a big way.
- ▶ 17:48 Miles Brundage Um, in China, there's, like, much, uh, let, or I, I haven't seen as much concern about interpretability, though there are some, like, good papers coming out of China, but in terms of, like, governance, I, I haven't gotten the sense that… 2 times in the scene
Cost vs Quality in Edtech – Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:06 Avichal Garg It's just like the ramps are just crazy in a place like China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:44 Avichal Garg Like, I think if you, if you just look at the growth of companies and the revenue in those markets, I think China is just an amazing, amazing market. 2 times in the scene
3D Home Printing for the Developing World – Alexandria Lafci and Brett Hagler of New Story Charity · Y Combinator
- ▶ 42:02 Alexandria Lafci So, uh, printer that's gonna print a home, um, you know, in, uh, the US, or many of the examples you see in some places in China, they're not gonna necessarily work in Haiti and El Salvador with our specific design constraints.
Andy Bromberg - Startup Investor School Day 4 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 46:03 Andy Bromberg Uh, we could spend hours talking about the regulation here, but, uh, you need to follow it, and a lot of these tokens are securities, and you need to follow relevant securities law, but, uh, you know, certainly it is still a global…
The Number One Goal is Getting Started - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:57 Avni Patel Thompson So we actually moved to China, um, and he, um, worked there and I continued to work for Adidas in China from China and did strategy there. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:12 Craig Cannon For a job, like you're both career minded people and you moved all the way to China. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:05 Craig Cannon So before we get into the full poppy story, what was it like working in China? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:11 Avni Patel Thompson So, you know, India one a month, China, Japan, and instead of doing what we call saris and samosas or like, you know, sushi and samurai is very like stereotypical stuff.
Uncut Interview with Sam Altman on Masters of Scale [Audio] · Y Combinator
- ▶ 45:34 Reid Hoffman Although, actually, China is its own case. 2 times in the scene
Content Marketing Tips from Experts at First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz · Y Combinator
- ▶ 30:54 Sonal Choksi But, like, WeChat's like one of my, our piece that we did, um, Connie Chan, who's like our China expert, wrote this amazing deep dive on WeChat.
Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
- ▶ 29:00 Craig Cannon And, um, yeah, you know, you see like the article just gets picked up in China and people just want to believe it.
Baidu's AI Lab Director on Advancing Speech Recognition and Simulation · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:12 Adam Coates Um, so Baidu is actually the largest, uh, search engine in China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:24 Adam Coates Uh, and then the speech engine will give an answer and everybody goes, oh, that's what it was because it's just such a thick accent from perhaps someone in rural China.