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Baker: Uber used a WeChat bot to onboard Chinese drivers until blocked
“One of the engineers on our China growth team built a WeChat bot. WeChat's, you know, like a mess, the messaging app, or the Facebook of, sorry, the Facebook, and also the Internet of China, really. And so we built this WeChat bot, Where, as a driver, you coul…”
Aatrey: Platform Giants Like Tencent Cannot Build Every Use Case
“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. It's impossible. And it's not in their DNA as well, right?”
Choksi: Connie Chan's a16z WeChat piece won a 2015 Sydney Award
“In the New York Times, David Brooks does these annual Sydney Awards, and it was chosen in the 2015 Sydney Awards as one of the best pieces of long-form writing, and the best part is, it was the first time a non-media outlet had been included in it”